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.
This is episode 8, season 16 of the Countryfile Magazine Plodcast
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