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THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan book review THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan book review Written by Olivia Edward by Jennifer Lucy Allan • White Rabbit
There was a time, in the early 1900s, when fog horns bellowed out from all along Britain’s coastlines. Today, they’ve largely been silenced, but they still linger on in collective memories, informing notions of lonely seascapes and, at times, Britishness itself.
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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
Luke Turner
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We slip furtively down a dank London alley this week as Dale Cornish comes on the podcast to discuss Soft Cell s finest album
In this month’s Low Culture podcast we remember a time when Soho wasn’t full of over-priced coffee shops and guffawing advertising executives as musician, Croydon evangelist, and saviour of electronic music twitter Dale Cornish joins Luke Turner and guest presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan to discuss Soft Cell’s sleaze pop masterpiece
This Last Night In Sodom. Never mind Tainted Love , this is Marc Almond and Dave Ball s finest moment. As Dale puts it, “this sounds like Soho, everything is slightly too near your face… whatever that might be”.