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

found sound for November, created by musician and sound artist Alice Boyd.

For this year's Found Sounds, Alice travels across the UK to meet people inspired by heritage crafts,

folklore and the landscape, creating a sonic scrapbook of their practice.

This month is a little different.

Alice visits an apple tasting trial,

organised by a project called Some Interesting Apples,

a Kessel Barton in Cornwall.

We hear from a panel of apple experts, academics and artists

who are selecting and preserving wild-grown chance seedling apples

for the wilding mother orchard.

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 next month's found sound. So James and William, please could you introduce yourself and some interesting apples in the work you do?

My name's James Ferguson. I'm an orchidist and cider maker, and we've been bashing away at this project for about five or six years now.

This is the fifth iteration of the taste trials, where everyone will be

sitting down today to taste unique wild apple varieties. William Arnold, I'm a photographer, artist,

university lecturer, I'm interested in landscape histories and natural history. So all of these

apples, they're from discarded cores. So normally where someone

has perhaps thrown the end of their apple out of the car window or some, so you tend to find them

in laybys by the side of the road, by the side of railway tracks. And often just somehow

like field boundaries, by footpaths, and sometimes some quite unusual places,

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