Radio Times: Living World: Pike
Broadcast on Radio Four at 6.30am on Sunday, 31st January. Listen on the iplayer. The pike has a fearsome reputation as Britain’s most successful freshwater river predator. Keen fisherman and retired freshwater biologist Mike Ladle will never forget the first time he landed a pike. He was trying to catch eels, and hauled up a [...]
Radio Times – Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees.
For fans of the late, great patron saint Roger Deakin, this looks rather interesting. At 2pm, each afternoon this week, BBC Radio 7 are broadcasting five, fifteen minute programmes, under the heading Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees. I think it’s actually the 2007, Book of the Week programme from Radio 4 which was read by [...]
Radio Times – Nature: A Local Patch
NATURE: A Local Patch (part 1) BBC Radio 4 Tuesday 2 February 11.02 In the first of two programmes exploring our relationship with the landscape and the value of getting to know ‘a local patch’ three wildlife enthusiasts share their experiences of their own ‘local patch’. For wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, the local patch [...]
Queen Anne’s Lace
words & illustration by Jonathan Newdick. Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder are motoring from Oxford to Brideshead. The year must be about 1920. Evelyn Waugh is not specific but he does tell us that it was ‘. . . a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were white with fools’ parsley and meadowsweet and [...]
Caught by the Reaper
29 January 2010 // Remembrance
J.D. Salinger by Kevin Pearce. “Here’s to you Mr Salinger. I probably read you more than any other writer as a kid …” I don’t ordinarily join in mass mourning. But on hearing of the death of J.D. Salinger I did feel a need to pay tribute in some small way. I doubt that he [...]
Birdsongs in The Guardian
29 January 2010 // Miscellany //Music
Our Birdsongs compilation has been picked up by The Guardian today. The way this usually works is that a link that stays live for a couple of days is sent out to everyone on our subscribers list one time only. This happened on Wednesday of this week. Guess today we make an exception. If you [...]
Still on the Charts
29 January 2010 // Rivers Book
Afternoon chaps, Caught by the River was in Sunday’s Independent! It was on their ‘Critical List’ pages – which is the ‘what’s hot in the Arts this week’ section. Each week they get their favourite independent book retailers to recommend their favourite books in a Top Ten Hitlist. Caught by the River was in Sunday’s [...]
Letter From Arcadia
Snowdrops. ja thanks for pulling the black-outs down. feared arcadia was in aspic. or you’d missed the last chub before christmas, not tunnelling out of highgate to a waiting troika. your s&r was like a smuggler’s beacon on the romney marsh. i couldn’t do one; accident in the word factory, fingers lost in the eulogy [...]
Sick Note From Arcadia
ladies and gentlemen for all those of you who may be preparing to travel to spitalfields tomorrow i am afraid to tell you that due to an outbreak of vicious bream cough in arcadia i will not be there but will return as usual next thursday 4th february. in the meantime to sate your appetite [...]
“We wanted our magazine to be like a Samuel Palmer watercolour!”
26 January 2010 // Country Bizarre
COUNTRY BIZARRE. ISSUE 1 AVAILABLE HERE (BS. Andy used to live in second-hand bookshops and discovered the crow picture in a box of old engravings. It’s an absolute gem and (sorry I never mentioned this) was one of the reasons we chose the title of Country Bizarre). The second part of our interview with Bernard [...]
Caught by the River