Chris Watson & Sarah Blunt collaboration coming up

[UPDATE: 3.10.2007: Only just noticed I had the title wrong on this post, corrected it today. Slow-poke.]

Really looking forward to this, it looks fab:

BBC Radio 4
NATURE – The Sounds of Britain 1. Wicken Fen
Date / Time: Monday 10 September at 21.02 – 21.30
repeat Tuesday 11 September at 11.02-11.30

Producer : Sarah Blunt
BBC Natural History Radio Unit
SYNOPSIS

In the first of a short series of richly evocative sound portraits, writer and naturalist
Paul Evans and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, capture the spirit and sounds
of wild Britain.

In the first programme, a wonderfully lively, lyrical and entertaining narration written
and read by Paul Evans, and illustrated with sounds of the wildlife and habitat
recorded by Chris Watson, offers a very personal and fascinating exploration of the
reed beds, ditches and dykes of Britain’s oldest nature reserve, Wicken Fen.

Natural History Unit God

I briefly met a senior producer from the Natural History Unit today -- Sarah Blunt. She produced the Sounds of Life, that I blogged giddily about below. Quite inspiring -- she uses layers so very well! And she is clearly very passionate about what she does.

She recommended the DolphinEar Hydrophone as a good way to get into that area. I wished I had one on Sunday, when I found frog spawn in Richmond Park.

Most impressive, not only did I not fall at her knees in admiration, I was reasonably coherent. Yay!