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Chris Packham and Bat Poetry

Cerys hosts your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure. It's Bat Week and we're joined by naturalist Chris Packham and Briony Hughes who writes bat poetry. There will be bats!

Cerys hosts your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure. It's Bat Week and we're joined by naturalist Chris Packham and Briony Hughes who writes bat poetry. Naturally there will be bats!

Chris Packham is an award-winning naturalist, broadcaster, author and conservationist, and one of the UK’s best-known voices on wildlife and environmental issues. He’s joining as his tour World of Wonder: A Planet on the Edge gets underway across the UK.

Dr Briony Hughes is a lecturer in creative writing at the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. As an eco-poet, she uses her experiences tracking bats through the Surrey Hills as a means to expand ‘communication’ beyond the human body to create and inspire her poetry.

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    Questions

    • Oblivion.
    • All You See.

  • Neal Hefti

    BATMAN TV THEME

    Performer: Unknown Artist.
    • Batman Theme & Other Bat Songs (Expanded Edition).
    • BMG Special Products.
    • 1.

  • Faramarz Aslani

    Age Yeh Rooz

    • Pars Video.

  • Bill Evans Trio

    My Foolish Heart

    • Waltz For Debby [Original Jazz Classics Remasters].
    • Original Jazz Classics.
    • 1.

  • Marzieh

    امشب شب مهتابه

    • World Music I.

  • Romare

    Deeds Not Words

    • Oblivion.
    • All You See.

  • Aretha Franklin

    Won't Be Long

    • The Genesis of Aretha: 1960-1966.
    • Columbia/Legacy.
    • 1.

  • Toria Wooff

    Noiselessly

    • Sloe Flower Records.

  • Franck Biyong, Tunji Allen & Tony Allen

    Don't Tell Me Nonsense

    • Tangential Music.

  • Orchestra Baobab

    Ndiaga Niaw

    • Ndiaga Niaw.
    • Strut.
    • 1.

  • J.J. Cale

    After Midnight

    • Mercury.

  • Gotts Street Park & Olive Jones

    Wake Me Up

    • Blue Flower Music.

  • Maisy Owen

    Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel

    • Tompkins Square.

  • Isata Kanneh‐Mason

    Prokofiev: 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 12: No. 7, Prélude

    • Prokofiev: 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 12: No. 7, Prélude.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
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    Renfield's Afoot

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  • Little Milton

    I Can't Quit You Baby

    • Grits Ain't Groceries.
    • Geffen.
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  • NAO

    Fly Away

    • autumn.
    • Little Tokyo Recordings.

  • Orchestra Mambo International

    Flauta Pa' Ti (feat. Chip Wickham)

    • Apuntalo.
    • Loft Recordings.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Someday Soon Sweet Samba

    • Cape Town Revisited.
    • Tiptoe.

  • Abdullah Ibrahim

    Soweto

    • Rough Guide To South African Jazz.
    • World Music.
    • 12.

  • Sierra Hull

    Bombshell

    • Daybreak.
    • Universal Music Group International.
    • 4.

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    I Will Follow You Into The Dark

    • I Will Follow You into the Dark.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 1.

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    Bela Lugosi's Dead

    • Small Wonder Records.

  • Marc Valentine

    Complicated Sometimes

    • Basement Sparks.
    • Wicked Cool Records.
    • 1.

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    Bat Out Of Hell

    • Bat Out Of Hell.
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    Move Your Body (Greater Horseshoe Bat)

    • KIN-TU.

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    Bat

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    Echolocation

    • Echolocation.
    • Freedom To Spend.
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    Winged Mammal Theme

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  • Rory Gallagher

    Bad Penny

    • Top Priority (Remastered 2017).
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    • 6.

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    Come Back Around

    • SofaBurn Records.

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    Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World)

    • Little Milton: Chess 50th Anniversary Collection.
    • Geffen*.
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    Rosé

    • Magic.
    • Heavenly Recordings.
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    Call Me The Breeze

    • Naturally.
    • Universal International Music B.V..
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    West Tide Story

    • Energy Islands.
    • Fara.
    • 07.

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