199. A quest for skylark song in the Cotswold Hills with James MacDonald Lockhart
Jun 20, 2023•53 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
This week we’re going back to early spring and a trip to the north Cotswolds in Warwickshire to meet James Macdonald Lockhart who has written a book inspired purely by birdsong. Rather like our Plodcasts, James has spent several years on quests to listen to some of Britain’s most famous – and curious – avian melodies – and his book Wild Air reveals his adventures and the little known stories behind each species.
In this quest, we were after perhaps the most written about – the most composed about – bird of them all: the skylark.
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