Hey everybody! This week we are discussing Phil Tippett’s 30 year masterpiece, Mad God. Listen as we try our best to breakdown this incredible piece of stop motion filmmaking that somehow manages to visually capture the feeling of hopelessness, fear, anger, and pain. Enjoy!

This soundscene was captured two weeks ago from a rackety wooden fence beside a grass meadow. Reeds are growing to right of scene, waving and hushing in strong gusts of spring warm wind. Centre, a view out across the meadow. Left of scene, over a rough track and an overgrown strip of marshy land is the Thames Estuary. Above, from time to time, skyl…

Whilst out along the Kent side of the Thames Estuary on Saturday, aiming to capture the sound of skylarks and reeds, we met a walker with a very friendly border terrier. She told us there was talk of a nightingale not too far away at RSPB's Northward Hill Nature Reserve. We aren't strictly speaking wildlife recordists, the Lento box is designed lik…

At this spot, high up on The Warren, in the dead of night, live the crickets. They're everywhere. Stridulating, like tiny minute hands etching the moments, of this night's time passing. Crisp. Unwitnessed. They're probably dark bush crickets. The Lento box records the scene alone, on a warm night last August. Tied to a very difficult tree. Difficul…

Hey Reservos! This week we are discussing David Byrne’s directorial debut, True Stories. Be patient as we attempt to breakdown this eccentric, quirky collection of seemingly unconnected stories of the charmingly unique inhabitants of a small Texas town. Enjoy!

Pett in Sussex. A 'small peaceful seaside village'. Here you can visit a little timber chapel on the beach with an open door to a kitchen. You can take a seat, absorb the atmosphere, then make yourself a cup of tea if you like, choose a book from the shelves and drop your donation into the honesty box. Before heading out to explore the wild pebble …

Hey everybody. This week we are discussing Tony Kaye and David McKenna’s American History X. Listen as we breakdown this tragic story of how hate and anger can infect and destroy your life and finding the path to break the cycle. Enjoy!

This week we're staying on the uplands of rural Derbyshire to hear a passage of time from the dead of night. We captured it last month, from a location very near to last week's episode, About half a mile upstream, high above the valley pastures where the sheep live, hides a watery dell. It's shrouded under tangled trees, who no doubt thrive on the …

Hey Reservos! This week we are discussing the 1942 version of the Charlie Chaplin classic, The Gold Rush. Listen as we breakdown this incredibly crafted romantic comedy full of wit, charm, and heart.

Left of scene, a steep uninhabited valley, shrouded under dense woodland. Right of scene, rough pastures and grass meadows sloping gradually up, towards a distant horizon. Centre, a silvery glimpse of the moorland stream that's flowed down into this valley for as long as rain began to fall. Spring has arrived. The valley is verdant green, and alive…

Hey everybody! This week we are discussing Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Incendies. Listen as we breakdown this incredibly powerful and devastating story of how war, violence, and anger can bring so much more pain than you can imagine. Enjoy!

Last week we visited Burgh Island in Devon on the south west coast of England. We made two overnight recordings, both looking out towards the island from Bigbury-on-Sea. The island is connected to the mainland by a sand causeway. This passage of time is from the second unaccompanied overnight recording, midnight to 1am. The darkness is solid. A lan…

Last summer when we were stuck at home, and when heavy rain was forecast between midnight and three, we decided it'd be nice to capture its sound. The idea is enchanting. Rain, falling, on a little suburban garden, verdant with plants and shrubs of various kinds, as they quietly and invisibly sleep through the night. Hearing this scene though, is o…

Hey everybody! This week we are discussing The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Listen as we break down this beautiful haunting look into the idolization and worship of a myth being tainted by the reality of the person behind the legend. Enjoy!

Welcome back to the show! For our season 11 premiere we are discussing Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. Listen as we breakdown this surprisingly light hearted adventure following two peasants, a general, and a princess fight their way through the enemy to their sanctuary. Enjoy!

Sat back, looking onto Rye Harbour nature reserve. There, to the ear, is the sea. From here it's out of sight, somewhere below the long shingle ridge. From this point across the reserve, it could to the ear be an aural sunrise. A wall of natural energy, lighting up the horizon with clean, white, spatialised noise. On the intervening land, stray gus…

We found our way to record this remote location late at night, and in near total darkness. A sheltered dell, with a fresh running stream. Earlier in the day, when everything was bathed in bright grey light, we'd walked through this secluded place on our way down from West Quantoxhead, and decided it might be a perfect spot for the Lento box to make…

Twelve strikes the clock, of St Mary's Church in Rye, East Sussex. Midnight. A sound that for anyone left awake, opens a new page. It's a new day, captured by the Lento box perched high above the churchyard, one night in mid-February. The new day reads like this. The gnarled limb of a winter tree beside the churchyard creaks against an undulating w…

What a long-form sound landscape recording of the Derbyshire hills reveals, is space, weather, and birds. A buzzard. Mistle thrush. Song thrush. Great tit. Geese. Wren. Robin. Jackdaw. Pheasant. Black cap. All present in their different ways. Buffeted by strong spring breezes under grey skies. Ahead, down the fields, mid-left of scene, the rushing …

Hey everybody! It’s a bonus episode! This season, we’re discussing previous episodes that we feel could have been better and could use some more analysis and better hosting from the two of us. Did we do better the second time? We may never know…

Sometimes, when persistent rain is forecast overnight, we place the Lento box out in the back garden on a long battery to capture the sound. Falling rain is always enchanting, especially at night when the city is asleep. We leave a large tarpaulin stretched across the yard to catch the raindrops as they fall. We position the microphone box centrall…

Hey everybody! This week we are concluding our End Of Season Series, where we are discussing films by directors that make only one film with Man Bites Dog. Listen as we breakdown this disturbing, horrific, darkly funny satire on the ethics and morality of journalism and what happens when the line is crossed and the documenter becomes too involved w…

It is almost high tide on Winchelsea Beach. Old timbers, buried in the shingle berm, point up into the hazy winter sky. You scrunch over the stones. Rest your hands on their sturdy weatherworn tops. And begin to take in the scene. Clean sea air cuffs against your face. It smells faintly of salt, of sea wetted rock. The beach rakes sharply down into…

Hey everybody! This week we are continuing our End Of Season Series, where we are discussing films by directors that make only one film with Gerald Kargl’s Angst. Listen as we breakdown this hyper realistic representation of the true horrifying murders of an Austrian family in 1980. Enjoy!

This spatial sound-scene of dawn birdsong was captured from deep within the Kielder Forest, a huge wilderness of fir trees in the far north east of England almost at the border with Scotland. Along with most all of our 257 episodes, this audio was produced by leaving the Lento box to record alone on-location, over a long span of time. By listening …

Hey everybody! This week we are continuing our End Of Season Series, where we are discussing films by directors that make only one film with Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. Listen as we breakdown this nightmarish look at the aftermath of war and the damage it can leave behind. Enjoy!

(Hello! We're a different type of podcast. If you're new to us, before you listen, here's a few tips about getting the most out of listening to Radio Lento.) The Creel Path, used by generations of fisherman to get from Coldingham to the coastal fishing village of St Abbs in the far south east of Scotland, is a thousand years old. It crosses an expo…

Hey everybody! This week we are beginning our End Of Season Series, where we are discussing films by directors that make only one film with Charles Laughton’s The Night Of The Hunter. Listen as we breakdown this dream-like, fairy tale nightmare demonstrating some of the most subversive techniques filmmaking of its time, while not shying away from t…

A wide open landscape, under a dark October sky. Remote. Naturally quiet. Witnessed from behind a lone cottage hidden between tall graceful trees. It's just rained. Drips are falling from the old slate roof into an overfilled drain. Time passes. Somewhere far off, mid-right of scene, an owl hoots. It's call, carried on the wind from rolling fields …

Follow the path with the sea on your left side, until you reach the trees. It's only a small outcrop, just beyond the banks of tangled shrubbery and before you get to the location of a 19th century harbour of Lilstock in West Somerset, now long-gone. Step off the path. Lean against one of the smooth bark trees, the one closest to where the pebbles …

Hey everybody! This week we are discussing a sequel 35 years in the making, Blade Runner 2049. Listen as we breakdown this incredibly crafted sci-fi, neo noir that honors the original while expanding on the concepts and story that Blade Runner began all those years ago. Enjoy!

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This episode is to honor the visionary that was David Lynch. He will be missed. We will be back on Tuesday with a regular episode.

Quiet sky. This is how one sounds. Above Looe, on the Cornish coast. Thousands of cubic miles of empty air. No planes. No cars. No lorries to throw up their noise as they haul loads along dark country roads. Just gusts, and sea breezes. And a fleeting low whistle from a high chimney pot. Many steep tiled rooves, catching, and reflecting, and handin…

Hey Reservos! This week we are discussing Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon. Listen as we breakdown this dramatization of the bizarre real life robbery of a Brooklyn bank that shocked the city with all of its twists and turns that kept everyone on edge until the very end. Enjoy!

This barmy afternoon in Holme-Next-The-Sea has gained a stiff undulating wind. It hurries past the sheep in the paddock next to St Mary's church. Whisps through banks of unmown grasses, sifting up their scent. Shakes dry-leaved hedgerows so they sound as summer dry as the baked mud looks by the lane. Yes, today certainly feels like it's the first d…

Hey Reservos! This week, we are discussing Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Listen as we discuss this very bizarre, surreal, screwball dark comedy about a man looking for excitement and stumbled into a nightmare. Enjoy!

Portland. Southeast 4 or 5 increasing 7 or 8 veering South 4 or 5 later. Occasional showers. Good, becoming moderate. The Shipping Forecast marks its centenary on the BBC today. Happy birthday from Radio Lento! ----- Take as a seat one of the large flat stones under a tree. It's a lone tree, full of sparrows. Watch the ocean boats. The high tide is…

Hey everyone! This week we are discussing Todd Haynes’ experimental biopic of Bob Dylan, I’m Not There. Listen as we breakdown this unique look at the myth and legend behind the singer/songwriter and explore the many pieces that make him an icon. Enjoy!

For Christmas Eve we're sharing this nocturnal hour of sound landscape time captured by the Lento box in the high peaks of Derbyshire. Bare leafless trees, sighing together, in strong undulating mid-winter wind. We feel this is one of our most atmospheric overnight recordings of landscape trees. To far left of scene across a field there's a strip o…

Merry Christmas! This week we are discussing the academy award nominated animated film, Klaus. Listen as we breakdown this beautifully animated story of how a simple act of kindness can break a seemingly endless cycle of anger and hate. Enjoy!

With the stream to our right, we headed down from the exposed uplands of West Quantoxhead and into a shallow valley. Sky whitish grey. Air still. It smelled of rich late Autumn undergrowth, and faintly of mushrooms. As we descended, the landscape changed. Became tucked in. Shapes of sheep shifted against dark thickets below. The grass got thicker t…

Hey everybody! This week, we are discussing the Safdie Brothers stress-filled, fever dream, Good Time. Listen as we breakdown this anxiety fueled crime drama about what it takes to finally understand that your actions can do much more harm than good and to finally let go. Enjoy!

Kilve beach is edged by sheer cliffs and is made of rocks. Mostly small ones the size of oranges, up to medium sized ones the size of sofa cushions. To cross over them is unstable and you have to move like a penguin, which must be fun to watch if you aren't the one trying to stay upright. Jutting up between the smaller rocks are huge mattress sized…

Hey everybody! In this surprising turn of events, this week we are discussing Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises. Listen as we breakdown this beautifully animated, semi-biographical adaptation of the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the aeronautical engineer that designed the Mitsubishi A60 Zero airplane that had a significant impact on WWII. Enjoy!…

This is segment II from a 6-hour sound capture we took earlier this year at Kielder Forest in Northumberland. Recorded in spring, the environment is rich with birdsong, mainly willow warblers whose song is a short and very cheerful descending scale. We'd been walking along one of the rough paths that thread through the forest below the Kielder Obse…

Hey everybody! This week, we are discussing Milos Forman’s adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. Listen as we breakdown this story of jealousy, resentment, and admiration for a talent that is just out of reach. Enjoy!

Hey everybody! This week we are discussing David Lynch’s adaptation of Wild At Heart. Listen as we respectfully discuss this very strange, disjointed, fever dream of a pseudo-erotic romantic drama that is only redeemed by stellar performances. Enjoy!

Turn right off the towpath beside the Military Canal, cross the footbridge, locate the stile that leads onto the hill, then follow the rough footpath up into some impressive edgeland. It's rough. Grassy. Very thistly. And as you ascend it feels hard. Increasingly wild. It's somewhere up here, we say, striding firm against the gradient. But the thin…

Hey Reservos! This week we are discussing two wonderfully beautiful adaptations of Paddington and Paddington 2. Listen as we explore these clever, creative, emotionally complex and intelligent films that make us all want to be better people and more like a sweet, polite, and charming bear. Enjoy!