This month’s interview with Gordon Hempton, reprinted from 2010 as part of our ongoing celebration of The Sun’s fiftieth year of publication, is on.
Robert Bound is joined in the studio by Jennifer Lucy Allan, a musicologist, writer and radio presenter, who also has a PhD in foghorns. Her book ‘The Fogh…
Lea Bertucci is a New York City–based sound artist and composer whose work bridges performance, installation, and multichannel activations of acoustic space. Murmurations, her collaboration with Ben Vida, is out this month on Cibachrome Editions.
Geographical Magazine Geographical s pick of the books: May 2021 Written by Geographical
BOOK OF THE MONTH:
FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
Forester Suzanne Simard becomes a ‘forest detective’ and begins to challenge the short-sighted management practices that threaten the long-term survival of forests. One very hot British Columbian summer, she begins to discover types of fungal network – ‘mycorrhiza’ or, literally, ‘fungus root’ – that trade ‘water and nutrients from the soil in exchange for sugars. from their plant partners’. Hundreds of them, all doing different tasks.
Tim Marshall follows up on his hugely successful