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Bridges and Apples

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2025/01/29

Looking back on Apple Day at Wakelyns farm, Tallulah Brennan reflects on growing trees and building bridges. As we are approaching Wakelyns farm, our taxi driver tells us that he has dropped off many visitors here over the last 15 years. He says that after one job, he was offered a little tour of the […]

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SOIL: The World at Our Feet

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2025/01/28

Dr Tim Cockerill – A Diversity of Forms. Image courtesy of the artist Just opened at Somerset House, SOIL: The World at Our Feet is a landmark exhibition unearthing the wonder of soil, its unbreakable bond to all life, and the vital role it plays in our planet’s future. Bringing together thinkers, filmmakers, global and […]

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Lighthouses of the UK #20: Lowestoft

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2025/01/26

Continuing his quest to document the UK’s lighthouses, Ben Langworthy reaches the most easterly point in mainland Britain. The Lowestoft Lighthouse stands just a few hundred yards away from Ness Point, the most easterly point in mainland Britain —thus bestowing this whitewashed outpost with the title of the U.K.’s most easterly lighthouse. The current building […]

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Even the Trees are Lonely

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2025/01/25

Ysella Sims is nurtured by her garden — a wild island adrift on a sea of turned fields. I walk the long footpath out of the village on another grey evening of a stuttering spring. Wild carrot is flowering, its bruised purple stems and white umbels nodding, dramatic and seductive, on the margins. I notice […]

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I Love You, Cam

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2025/01/24

In an extract from her book ‘Dark Skies’, Anna Levin is romanced by the River Cam. Soft summer rain was falling on a midsummer evening as we stood in a defiant circle near the riverbank. We gathered here, with a prelude of procession, painting, poetry and song, to declare the Rights of the River Cam. […]

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Now Playing

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2025/01/23

‘Riverside’ by Oracle Sisters. Taken from the album Divinations, out on Wizard Artists on 14th February.

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A Cool Vertigo

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2025/01/22

Will Burns meets his dream-self on four urethane wheels. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that about once a month all of my adult life I have been visited by dreams of it, dreams that consist, as all dreams do, I suppose, of half-feelings, images, powerfully felt physical sensation. These dreams would come uncoupled […]

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Big Garden Birdwatch

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2025/01/21

This weekend, join the annual Big Garden Birdwatch to help the RSPB build a picture of how garden birds are faring. All it takes is 1 hour of watching on your patch of choice — be it garden, park, balcony or elsewhere — between the 24th and 26th of January. Record the birds that land, […]

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Selkie Folk

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2025/01/19

In the face of climate change, the seals colonising the coast of East Anglia are a much-needed success story, writes Daniel Williams. Norfolk is shrouded in mist as we head out of Norwich, the weather intensifying the sense of time being stilled between Christmas and New Year. Vainly I imagine that an offshore breeze might […]

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A Trip to Elmley

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2025/01/18

Paul Bursche heads to the Isle of Sheppey, to visit one of the UK’s most significant wildlife havens. The Spit End Bird Hide at Elmley NNR is an unassuming building — a small garden-shed-sized wooden hut, perched on legs at the side of the sea wall that overlooks The Swale, the stretch of water that […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Diva Harris

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2025/01/17

Caught by the River editor Diva Harris closes the door on Shadows & Reflections season, sharing excerpts from her 2024 diary. 5th February 2024 An egg yolk spilt across the supermarket tiles, and a small child pointing, asking their mother who did this? By night, warm winds whipping the bedsheets, pinging the pegs, catching the […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Mathew Clayton

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2025/01/16

Mathew Clayton on the wisdom that saw him through 2024. Wherever you turned in 2024 people were upcycling simple observations as deep thoughts. The most unlikely fuck-ups are now executive coaches. Pretty much all my ex-colleagues can be found offering their services as Keynote/TedX speakers on LinkedIn. Someone I knew in the 90s has re-invented […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Jon Woolcott

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2025/01/15

Jon Woolcott contemplates forefathers, family trees and inheritance. On Christmas Eve, 1990, my brother Tim and I found ourselves in the dark in an ancient cottage close to the A21 in Sussex. A few months earlier our mother had married a man we hardly knew, and we were in his home; the following morning they […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Ian Preece

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2025/01/14

In a world without much hope, there’s still José Henrique Bortoluci, Barry Lopez and Bridget Hayden, writes Ian Preece. Snow is falling on Leytonstone, late on a Saturday night – but tomorrow we’ve got to take the Christmas tree down. As someone who feels the onset of post-Christmas blues around 22nd December, I passed up […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Kevin Boniface

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2025/01/12

Wheelie bins, fag packets, and 6am songthrushes: postman Kevin Boniface shares a year of highlights from his daily Huddersfield round.

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Shadows and Reflections: Tamsin Grainger

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2025/01/11

Tamsin Grainger looks back over a year of slow travel. I’m going to start by talking about the weather. Bear with me! This past year the UK temperatures have ricocheted from proper cold to mild, the rain levels have surged from flood to drought, and the wind gusted from almost-hurricane to breezy zephyr. I’ve been […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Christina Riley

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2025/01/10

As she looks back on the year her Nature Library found a permanent home, Christina Riley celebrates libraries as places of limitless potential. It’s often said, and rightly so, that libraries are more than just books. It’s usually said when highlighting additional services the modern library offers communities, such as ‘unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Anna Fleming

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2025/01/09

Ecstatic ascent and despair in the valley: Anna Fleming reflects on a year of grief in the mountains. 2024 was an odd year. A year of extreme highs and lows. This was the year I climbed the highest mountains I have ever been up. It was also the year that a close friend suddenly died. […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Ben Ewart Dean

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2025/01/08

Ben Ewart Dean shares a 2024 spent creeping along narrow allotment paths, thinking of new ways to capture these radical spaces. The year began with a flurry (or as close as I get to a flurry) of allotment-related creative activity. In January, I spent a few days on a site in Cardiff, filming shots for […]

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Shadows & Reflections: Sue Brooks

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2025/01/07

Sue Brooks spent much of 2024 in search of Elizabeth Tuckniss — an unknown woman in a long line of unknown women to have shared their lives with extraordinary artists. I’m turning the clock back to a moment on July 10th 2022. I’m outside Trefan Morys near Llanystumdwy in N.Wales. Jan Morris has been dead […]

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