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Sounds of the Earth: November

Nestle for a while into a Humberside reed-bed, the grasslands of the Kalahari and autumnal woodlands in Virginia, with music including Elgar and the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group.

Nestle for a while with coots, moorhens and bearded tits from a reed-bed in Humberside, clapper larks rising up from the grasslands of the Kalahari, autumnal sounds of squirrels and nuthatches from the woodlands in Virginia and a spooky Hallowe鈥檈n soundscape from a churchyard in Bedfordshire. And there are short excerpts of music by Elgar, John Barry, Amy Beach, Steeleye Span, Edward MacDowell and the Ahmad Sham Sufi Qawwali Group.

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