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'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern and presented by the nature writer Lia Leendertz. Each episode, released on the first of every month, is a guide to what to look out for i...
For May, we are in the wet woodland - where ferns glow amid the alders in the light of this month’s pair of full moons, and we catch sight o...
For April, Alice travels to East Sussex for the homecoming event of Singing with Nightingales . Here she meets friend of As the Season Turns...
Our April chalk stream is sunlit and clear, a river in a fairytale. We spot amphibians and salmon in its crystalline waters, pick wild water...
For March, Alice is in South London. Here she meets author and DJ Zakia Sewell for a spring equinox ritual. They quest together through land...
For March, we’re by the river - where ancient fishes swim amid the water weeds, and not every spring green is as lovely as it appears. Today...
For February’s Found Sound, Alice Boyd visits Muireann Ní Sheoighe Eachthighearn, one of only a handful of female luthiers, or fiddle makers...
This month, we’re out on the marsh - exposed beneath the fleeting February sky. Wading birds chatter and forage around us as we note the nam...
For January’s episode, the first of 2026, Alice Boyd meets artist, illustrator and curator Tabby Booth at her studio in Falmouth, Cornwall....
Come with us to the chilly canal for our first episode of 2026, a series themed around water. We forage for nettles along the banks and dip...
For December's Found Sound, Alice Boyd walks with broadcaster Matthew Bannister, creator of the podcast Folk on Foot, through the Wildbrooks...
Wrap up warm for our December episode - the last of our 2025 series. We prune our orchard’s sleepy trees, make ephemeral ink from sloes, and...
For November, Alice Boyd visits an apple tasting trial, organised by a project called Some Interesting Apples, at Kestle Barton in Cornwall....
For November, let's crunch along leafy paths and hedgerows. We’ll gather sloes and the last apples, spot colourful mushrooms, and head to th...
For October's Found Sound, Alice visits multidisciplinary artist and writer, Caroline Ross, at her new home in Hexham, Northumberland, where...
Join us for a chilly, colourful October day. We’ll meet drunken butterflies, tell stories of conkers and hawthorn, and after dark visit the...
This September, Alice visits wild honey bee conservationist and carpenter Matt Somerville in his cottage in Hampshire. His work champions a...
Wander with us through a soft September day. We’ll gather fruit in the orchard, and blackberries and rosehips in the hedges - and eat them....
In August, Alice Boyd visits floral designer, writer and broadcaster Hazel Gardiner in London - where Hazel creates a joyful floral arrangem...
For August, revel with us in the final days of summer. We refresh ourselves by the sea, looking for giants, and wander the woods in quest of...
For July, Alice Boyd visits author and mudlark Lara Maiklem on the Thames foreshore in Wapping, London. Lara takes us on a mudlarking walk,...
Wallow with us in the quiet of July, seeking out the coolness of water in the orchard and the wetlands. Along the way we hunt for chicken of...
In our Found Sound for June, Alice Boyd meets award-winning silversmith Cara Murphy on a beach near Belfast, Northern Ireland. We hear how t...
For June, Sam Lee sets the tone with a serene arrangement of the beautiful midsummer hymn, 'Abroad for Pleasure'. We stroll from meadow to o...
For May's Found Sound, Alice Boyd heads to Bristol to record the dawn chorus and meet wildlife presenter, activist and birder Nadeem Perera....
To bring in May we'll forage for bread and cheese, gather round the Maypole, and slip down to the riverbank to meet our mammal of the month....
For April's Found Sound, Alice Boyd meets artist Lucy May Schofield in her studio in rural Northumberland. We hear about Lucy’s water-based...
Wend your way with us through an April day - through the blossoming orchard, to Japan for our monthly tree ritual, under the oak trees with...
In March, Alice meets organic food grower and author Claire Ratinon in her garden in East Sussex. Sheltering from the rain, they plant the f...
March is the start of spring - to celebrate, Sam Lee sings an uplifting new arrangement of the folk anthem 'Birds in the Spring'. Our mammal...
For February's Found Sound, Alice Boyd meets wood artist Darren Appiagyei in Greenwich Park in south-east London, before heading to his stud...
For February, Sam Lee gives us a bold new version of 'Oakham Poachers', a traditional ballad recorded in Gloucestershire. In the orchard, we...
For January’s Found Sound, Alice Boyd meets Scottish-Scandinavian illustrator, printmaker and storyteller Morvern Graham on the East Scottis...
For our first episode of 2025, we are delighted to welcome this year's musician - the wonderful Sam Lee, who has composed a song for January...
For our final Found Sound of 2024, we have created a special episode for you. Alice Boyd travels to Somerset to meet our very own Lia Leende...
For December, our final episode of 2024, we mark the winter solstice with fireside tales of elder trees and wrens. The Breath sing 'Carry Yo...
This month, Alice Boyd is with ecological food grower, forager and cook Poppy Okotcha in her garden in Devon - where they plant beans, make...
In November's episode we mark the old festival of Samhain, and the end of the harvest - while in our ancient woodland the animals, too, are...
This month, Alice Boyd is back on another foraging walk with Zoe Gilbert, author, folklorist and contributor to As the Season Turns . This t...
October is prime season for mushrooms - and we find them in the ancient woodland and in fairy rings, exploring the best kinds to eat and the...
This month, Alice meets Roka from Roka Brings Flowers on her narrowboat ‘Leafy Lady’. Roka is a florist and craft maker living a nomadic lif...
In September, the wildlife in our ancient woodland is thriving on the season's abundance, while in the orchard with Zoe we meet some interes...
For August's Found Sound, Alice Boyd meets sisters Martha and Ella Webb, a clothes maker and scientific illustrator, in their studios in Str...
August is the first real harvest month - so we go foraging in the ancient woodland, delving into the folklore of blackberries, elder and row...
This month, Alice Boyd meets artist and woodworker Sophie Sellu on the way to her studio Grain and Knot in south-east London, where Sophie d...
In July, the ancient woodland cools us down - while we explore the hot-weather roots of some of the month's many names. In the garden Zoe gi...
For June's Found Sound, Alice meets science and nature writer Chantal Lyons at Woorgreens Nature Reserve in the heart of the Forest of Dean,...
For June, we spend time in the garden - with squirrels and foxes, nectar-rich flowers and a glut of early summer vegetables. The Breath play...
This month, Alice meets writer and poet Dr JC Niala and artist Sam Skinner at Elder Stubbs Allotments in Oxford - where they have recreated...
In May's episode we explore the folklore of this lovely month - green men, Robin Hood, the moon and maypoles. We cook from the garden and ma...
April's Found Sound is the second part of an exploration into foraging. In this episode, Alice meets wild foods expert Miles Irving to forag...