Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns. I'm Leah Lane Dirts and I'm delighted to introduce this found sound for December, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd. For the final found sound of

24, we have created a special episode for you. Alice travelled to Somerset to meet me at Stanton Drew's

Stone Circle to the south of Bristol.

Here we talked about Stone Circle myths, marking the seasons and fresh starts.

And I'm delighted to let you know that we will be returning for 2025 with 12 more found sounds,

each released on the Middle Friday of the month.

For this new year, Alice will be travelling across the UK to visit practitioners inspired by heritage crafts, folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.

January's found sound will be out on the 17th.

You may wish to pause the podcast here for a moment,

while you find somewhere warm and quiet,

to close your eyes, sit back and settle down into this month's found sound. The So Leah, can you introduce yourself?

I'm Leigh Landert and I am the presenter of As the Season Turns and the author of The Almanac.

And where are we right now?

We're at Stanton Drew's Stone Circle, which is a very big stone circle.

And it's, I think, my closest stone circle to where I live in North Bristol.

So I've actually visited here lots of times through my life.

And so it feels quite nice and familiar to me.

And we just thought it would be a really nice spot to come and record.

It's very kind of peaceful because there's not any major roads too nearby.

We've got this lovely kind of, we're in a kind of bowl of hills.

And just very beautiful.

We've got this huge megaliths ahead of us.

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