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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Sound Recordist, Ellie Williams, takes Clare for an audio-rich wander at Abbots Pool in North Somerset. Walking, she says, is as essential to her as food and sleep and – whether she’s recording, or not – she’s always super-aware of the richness of the sounds around her. En route she contemplates why her profession is still so male-dominated and how it can be opened up to more women.
Grid Ref for Abbots Pool Car Park: ST 537 730
Producer: Karen Gregor
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0:06.0 | It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history. |
0:10.0 | Rock falls, avalanches. |
0:11.0 | Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you. |
0:14.0 | He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone. |
0:17.0 | How did it all go so wrong? |
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0:31.8 | Listen to the full series now. |
0:33.4 | First on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:41.4 | It's a wonderfully warm March day, and I've come to a wooded area. |
0:46.0 | Just outside Bristol called Abbott's Pool, it's very popular with walkers. |
0:50.4 | We've got beautiful paths running through it. |
0:52.7 | Originally it was a fish farming area for the local monks, |
0:57.6 | but in Victorian times it was a designated walking area. |
1:03.3 | And as well as the trees, you've got the very soothing sound of water. |
1:07.5 | And this is what the waterfall sounds like like from the outside but what about from the inside |
1:15.7 | I've come here to meet a sound recordist called Ellie Williams and she has for our benefit |
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