April 23

As the Season Turns

Folk, Seasons, Folk Singer, Ffern, Arts, Society & Culture, Music History, Folklore, Fragrance, Seasonal, Field Recording, Folk Music, Music, Wildlife, Nature, Science

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In April's episode we learn about different degrees of sunrise, plant hardy annuals and make nests for bees. Zoe has foraged for Lady's Mantle, while in the pond the newts are out and about. Alice heads to Dover to record the sea, and we hear an Easter recipe for pace eggs. Gwilym plays 'Blodau'r flwyddyn', an example of 'old verses' - thousands of verses that can be fitted together in different combinations, all to the same melody. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:07.0	Released on the first of the month, each episode will follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:13.0	from the moon and the stars to the tides in the trees.
0:17.0	I'm Leah Lander, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a collaboration
0:23.4	between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume, who blend barrelage and
0:30.3	bottle four fragrances a year, released at the equinoxes and solstices. We hope that this brief guide to the month ahead will awaken you to the rhythms of the year
0:42.3	and help you to settle deeper into the seasons. The sunrise in April
0:57.3	Sunrise is not as simple as it might appear.
1:02.9	On the 1st of April, the sun rises at 6.46am in Inverness, and at 6.56 in Padstow.
1:14.6	But before that, there will have been degrees of sunrise, degrees of fading twilight, and each of these has a name. Let's take Padstow as our example.
1:23.4	There the sky began to lighten at 501 a.m. with the beginning of astronomical twilight, the darkest of the three twilight phases.
1:33.7	It occurs when the sun is between 12 and 18 degrees below the horizon, and the difference it makes to the sky is subtle.
1:42.6	You will still be able to make out most stars and celestial objects during this time in a dark
1:47.9	sky area.
1:50.2	At 5.53 a.m., along comes nautical twilight, which is when the sun is between 6 and 12 degrees
1:57.6	below the horizon.
1:59.9	The brightest stars can be seen during this phase,
2:02.6	but crucially, so can the horizon,
2:05.1	making it possible for sailors to navigate by the stars,
2:08.6	hence the name nautical twilight.
2:11.9	And then, at 623, it is civil twilight,
2:16.4	when the sun is between 6 and 0 degrees below the horizon.
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