January 24

As the Season Turns

Ffern

Arts

4.9 • 846 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For our first episode of 2024 we look at names for January, old and new. The ancient woodland is deep in its winter silence, but we find signs of life in glittering wood moss. Zoe Gilbert tells frosty tales and we hear the Romani story of 'Mossycoat' - while elsewhere we welcome Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of The Breath as this year's guest musicians. 'As the Season Turns' is a podcast created by Ffern in collaboration with the nature writer and author of the Seasonal Almanac, Lia Leendertz. Lia is joined by novelist Zoe Gilbert and folk musicians Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of The Breath. Geoff Bird produces and Catriona Bolt is Ffern's in-house production coordinator. Each episode, released on the first of the month, is a guide to what to look out for in the month ahead - from the sky above to the land below. Ffern is an organic fragrance maker based in Somerset. You can learn more about Ffern's seasonal eau de parfum at ffern.co

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 2024 edition of the Fern podcast as the season turns.
0:14.0	Released on the first of each month, the episodes follow the changing landscape of the seasons,
0:19.8	from the moon and the stars to the tides and the
0:22.4	trees. I'm Leah Lander's, author of The Almanac, a seasonal guide, and this podcast is a
0:29.4	collaboration between myself and Fern, makers of small batch organic perfume. We are so delighted
0:37.1	to be launching a new year, our fourth.
0:40.6	Since Fern created as the season turns in 2021, it has gone from strength to strength,
0:46.6	last year receiving a nomination for a British podcast award.
0:51.5	Myself and the team at Fern are so looking forward to tracking the changing seasons with you
0:56.3	throughout the coming year.
0:59.5	For 2024, we are thrilled to welcome Raina Connolly and Stuart McCallum, the acclaimed
1:05.4	creative duo called The Breath, as this year's guest musicians.
1:10.4	Spinning influences from Irish traditional music into
1:13.3	spell-binding contemporary folk, the breath will bring us one song for each month of this year.
1:26.4	Returning for 2024 is Zoe Gilbert, author of Mischief Acts, for a fascinating series on folk characters.
1:35.1	And for a little lift this January, our resident sound recordist Alice Boyd will be creating a special meditative sound walk, leading you through the landscape of Dartmoor.
1:46.0	This will be released on the 12th of January, 2024.
1:50.1	I hope you enjoy hearing these contributions as much as I do,
1:54.0	and that this brief guide to the month ahead will help you to settle deeper into the seasons.
2:06.9	Names for January.
2:10.5	In modern English, January.
2:14.4	In Scots and Ulster Scots, Januar.
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