When I'm feeling a bit low, or if I'm feeling a bit out of sorts, then I go for a walk,

and if I can make it a walk in the countryside so much the better, because I was just reading

last week that there's some research now that suggests that it's beneficial to hear

bird song, and that bird song we connect with in some deep visceral way, and that lifts

our spirits.

You might well recognise that voice, it belongs to the former very senior BBC Executive

Radio presenter, and now fellow podcaster Matthew Bannister, and he is going to be here

to discuss the virtues of walking in nature, listening to extraordinarily beautiful music

and uplifting our well-being, and more besides.

Welcome to the Lizard Well-being Show, I'm Lizard, and this is the podcast that celebrates

ways to live a better second half of life, to live and to age well, and of course part

of this is getting out and about, into nature, for fresh air, and a bit of a marvel at the

natural world around us.

Maybe you're about to do that very thing over the new year break, well I have certainly

enjoyed working off just a few of the mince pie overloads by togging up and herding

the family outside, sometimes under protest, but always, I have to say, always feeling

the better for it.

And someone who not only feels similar, but who has taken this principle onto a whole

other level, is Matthew Bannister, host of the award-winning podcast, Folk on Foot,

and this sees him going for long walks in our beautiful British countryside, everywhere

from Sandwood Bay in Scotland to Port Isaac in Cornwall with his favourite folk musicians.

The way they're coming in here can be incredible, it's beautiful today, but you can imagine

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