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The Lake

Home to myths and wildlife, an evocative sound portrait of the UK's largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. From 2009.

An evocative sound portrait of the UK's largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.

With a shoreline measuring over 70 miles long, this vast stretch of water is more like a sea than a lake.

Recordings made above and below the waves reveal a moody, stormy, wild and even dangerous place where legends of a buried town, a horse god and three sisters emerge from the shallows.

Meanwhile, smoke-like plumes and huge flocks of birds rise from the surface as the seasons unfold.

Producer: Sarah Blunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 Oct 202203:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Fri 23 Jan 200911:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 5 Apr 200913:30
    BBC Radio Ulster & BBC Radio Foyle
  • Thu 9 Apr 200919:30
    BBC Radio Ulster
  • Fri 24 Apr 201506:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 24 Apr 201513:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 24 Apr 201520:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 25 Apr 201501:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 8 Oct 201806:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 8 Oct 201813:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 8 Oct 201820:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 9 Oct 201801:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 24 Oct 202214:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 25 Oct 202202:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 30 Oct 202215:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 31 Oct 202203:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra