199. A quest for skylark song in the Cotswold Hills with James MacDonald Lockhart
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. Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the…
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