The Days of No Shadow (... and then a deer barked)

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Recently, Britain experienced a blocking high pressure system, leading to an extended period of ‘anticyclonic gloom.’ Such are the conditions in which myths are created and as Blodeuwedd and Lleu indicate might still be created. 

Journal entry:

15th November, Friday

Early light.
 Thick mist
 Licked with salmon
 On the eastern edge.
 Frost glitters
 Along the cabin roof
 And rimes hoary
 On the solar panels.

Rooks pour off
 The music stave
 Of telegraph wires
 Whirling around the one oak.

The mist erupts
 With black wings
 And ragged song
 And such mysterious
 Determined intent
 That there is something
 In me that flies
 Off with them.

Episode Information:

In this episode I refer the story of Blodeuwedd and Lleu from the Mabinogion. I also refer to Gwilym Morus-Baird’s reading of it. 

The female tawny owl was recorded in the field by Sean Townsend (Freesound 2013).

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 Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
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Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
Derek and Pauline Watts
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Orange Cookie
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Rory with MJ and Kayla.
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Madeleine Smith

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

All other audio recorded on site. 

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