Welcome to the Fern podcast as the season turns. I'm Leah Lenders and I'm delighted to introduce this

found sound for March, presented by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd. Found sounds are sonic scrapbooks of interviews and field recordings, made with people

keeping heritage crafts and folk arts alive.

For March, Alice is in South London.

Here she meets Zachia Sewell, host of Dreamtime on BBC Radio 6 Music, and author of Finding Albion, recently long-listed

for this year's Women's Prize for Nonfiction. Together they discuss folk culture, ritual,

and the idea of questing through landscape and story as they walk towards the hilly field stone circle.

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. Sound Sound. Sakya, can you introduce yourself and describe your work?

I'm a writer, broadcaster and DJ based in London, not far from where we are here in

hilly fields. I've just written a book called Finding Albion, which is all about Britishness,

folklore, myth, and the search for more hopeful visions of national identity.

So we're here in hilly fields in southeast London.

Can you describe what we're looking at?

Yes, we're in a little bit of the park that's sort of,

it's like a little bit of a magical garden,

and you can see the snowdrops and crocuses

and little signs of life through the mud and the trees which are still looking a little bit

gnarled and lifeless. So yeah, spring is on the way. And as listeners will be able to hear

there are the sounds of the city.

We've got some planes overhead.

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