Making a nature podcast is harder than you think... Note: Contains bad words and loud noises! Listen →

Making a nature podcast is harder than you think... Note: Contains bad words and loud noises! <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-28-outtakes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-eight: Outtakes

Join Melissa for the last time on a longer walk than usual, taking in some familiar landmarks from earlier in the series. It’s a damp and misty autumn afternoon and the air smells of wet leaves and woodsmoke. Listen →

Join Melissa for the last time on a longer walk than usual, taking in some familiar landmarks from earlier in the series. It’s a damp and misty autumn afternoon and the air smells of wet leaves and woodsmoke. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-27-meaning/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-seven: Meaning

Join Melissa in her cosy cottage as wind and rain lash down outside. The autumn migration is underway, and billions of birds are on the move; indoors, it’s time to light the fire. Listen →

Join Melissa in her cosy cottage as wind and rain lash down outside. The autumn migration is underway, and billions of birds are on the move; indoors, it’s time to light the fire. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-26-weather/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-six: Weather

Join Melissa as she cycles to an abandoned World War II airbase and explores the old runways. A sharp breeze is plucking acorns from the trees, and skylarks are feeding in the brown stubble fields. Listen →

Join Melissa as she cycles to an abandoned World War II airbase and explores the old runways. A sharp breeze is plucking acorns from the trees, and skylarks are feeding in the brown stubble fields. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-25-healing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-five: Healing

Join Melissa and Scout as they walk down towards the village at sunset. The shadows of oaks stretch long over the stubble fields, the evening star comes out and pheasants fuss and cluck themselves to bed. Listen →

Join Melissa and Scout as they walk down towards the village at sunset. The shadows of oaks stretch long over the stubble fields, the evening star comes out and pheasants fuss and cluck themselves to bed. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-24-faltering/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-four: Faltering

Join Melissa as the sun rises on a crisp, cool autumn day; there are deer and hares in the dawn fields, and robins sing wistfully from the hedgerows. Listen →

Join Melissa as the sun rises on a crisp, cool autumn day; there are deer and hares in the dawn fields, and robins sing wistfully from the hedgerows. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-23-encounter/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-three: Encounter

Join Melissa as she walks Scout through the grounds of a stately home. The weather’s wet and it’s starting to feel like autumn; there are sloes in the hedgerows, and the first horse chestnut leaves are on the ground. Listen →

Join Melissa as she walks Scout through the grounds of a stately home. The weather’s wet and it’s starting to feel like autumn; there are sloes in the hedgerows, and the first horse chestnut leaves are on the ground. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-22-inheritance/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-two: Inheritance

Join Melissa as she gets lost in a tangled wood on the edge of the village. It’s windy, and a robin sings from the understorey, while toadstools are sprouting underfoot. Listen →

Join Melissa as she gets lost in a tangled wood on the edge of the village. It’s windy, and a robin sings from the understorey, while toadstools are sprouting underfoot. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-21-normal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty-one: Normal

Join Melissa as she scrambles down from her perch in an ancient oak and walks to a five-acre meadow managed for wildlife. Potatoes are being harvested, and buzzards wheel on thermals high overhead. Listen →

Join Melissa as she scrambles down from her perch in an ancient oak and walks to a five-acre meadow managed for wildlife. Potatoes are being harvested, and buzzards wheel on thermals high overhead. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-20-hope/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twenty: Hope

Join Melissa as she watches a huge combine harvester bringing in the golden wheat. The air is full of flying chaff, dragonflies, and the reedy sound of yellowhammers. Listen →

Join Melissa as she watches a huge combine harvester bringing in the golden wheat. The air is full of flying chaff, dragonflies, and the reedy sound of yellowhammers. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-19-ritual/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Nineteen: Ritual

I am a nature writer and novelist, and I’m lucky enough to be able to walk out of my cottage straight into Suffolk’s beautiful open countryside. For six months – as spring 2020 broke over the British Isles, and summer turned to autumn – I documented the wonder and richness of the natural world and the changing seasons and brought the outdoors into as many locked-down homes as I could.

Join Melissa as she explores a nearby arable farm. It’s a scorcher of a day, the heat hammering down, and grey partridges take cover in the shadier hedgerows. Listen →

Join Melissa as she explores a nearby arable farm. It’s a scorcher of a day, the heat hammering down, and grey partridges take cover in the shadier hedgerows. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-18-continuity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Eighteen: Continuity

Join Melissa at dusk as she strolls around the peaceful village, looking for glow-worms. A tawny owl is calling from behind the church, and the hedgerows are full of crickets. Listen →

Join Melissa at dusk as she strolls around the peaceful village, looking for glow-worms. A tawny owl is calling from behind the church, and the hedgerows are full of crickets. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-17-knowing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Seventeen: Knowing

Join Melissa and her dog Scout on a muggy walk among mudflats, creeks and saltmarsh where Phragmites reeds and sea lavender grow. Listen →

Join Melissa and her dog Scout on a muggy walk among mudflats, creeks and saltmarsh where Phragmites reeds and sea lavender grow. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-16-identity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Sixteen: Identity

Join Melissa on a shingly Suffolk beach studded with sea kale, horned poppies and spiny blue eryngium. Listen →

Join Melissa on a shingly Suffolk beach studded with sea kale, horned poppies and spiny blue eryngium. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-15-names/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Fifteen: Names

Join Melissa on a circular walk around the village’s sunny meadows. It’s haymaking time, and grasshoppers zither from the tall grass. Listen →

Join Melissa on a circular walk around the village’s sunny meadows. It’s haymaking time, and grasshoppers zither from the tall grass. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-14-looking/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Fourteen: Looking

Join Melissa as she listens for nightjars after dark. On Suffolk’s Sandlings the gorse smells of coconuts, while silver birches glimmer in the dusk. Listen →

Join Melissa as she listens for nightjars after dark. On Suffolk’s Sandlings the gorse smells of coconuts, while silver birches glimmer in the dusk. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-13-listening/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Thirteen: Listening

Join Melissa as she pays a visit to a nearby rabbit warren. It’s the longest day of the year, and the weather is sultry. Listen →

Join Melissa as she pays a visit to a nearby rabbit warren. It’s the longest day of the year, and the weather is sultry. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-12-home/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Twelve: Home

Join Melissa as she looks for purring turtle doves. The tall June grass is thick with wildflowers, and songbirds are still in full and glorious voice. Listen →

Join Melissa as she looks for purring turtle doves. The tall June grass is thick with wildflowers, and songbirds are still in full and glorious voice. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-11-value/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Eleven: Value

Join Melissa at twilight – the ‘blue hour’ – in a tangled copse. The hedges are garlanded with dog roses, and ox-eye daisies glimmer beneath. Listen →

Join Melissa at twilight – the ‘blue hour’ – in a tangled copse. The hedges are garlanded with dog roses, and ox-eye daisies glimmer beneath. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-10-binaries/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Ten: Binaries

Join Melissa as she follows the course of her local river. Elderflowers are taking over from cow parsley, and red damselflies throng the water. Listen →

Join Melissa as she follows the course of her local river. Elderflowers are taking over from cow parsley, and red damselflies throng the water. <a href="https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-9-memory/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen →</a>

Episode Nine: Memory

Just lovely. Spring’s imperviousness to whatever we idiotic humans are doing has cheered me these last two months, and if I can’t get out to my usual birding haunts, experiencing spring in England through Melissa Harrison’s podcast is a very good substitute indeed. Production values are casual enough to make it feel like you&#39;re listening to a friend, which adds to its charm. Guest segments are very good, and the Gilbert White readings are deeply moving.

Balm in a time of trouble

This aural celebration of our connection with nature has already become my favorite podcast ever. Author Melissa Harrison is a superb guide.

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