At Blackwater Pond, Provincetown, USA on 8th December 2021 in the morning – by Eleanor McDowall

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At Blackwater Pond, Provincetown, USA on 8th December 2021 in the morning – by Eleanor McDowall

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Dec 10, 2021

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“Beech Forest seems entirely silent until I stand still. I’m at the edge of Blackwater Pond, surrounded by bare winter trees, when I start to hear the wingbeats overhead. Tiny […]

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Dec 10, 2021

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A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).

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At Blackwater Pond, Provincetown, USA on 8th December 2021 in the morning – by Eleanor McDowall

At Blackwater Pond, Provincetown, USA on 8th December 2021 in the morning – by Eleanor McDowall

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