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Joe Acheson on the Wren

Musician Joe Acheson of Hidden Orchestra describes how slowing down recordings he made of the diminutive wren song during a dawn chorus, sounded like the morning calls of gibbons across the rainforest.

Producer: Tom Bonnett
Photograph: Sam Linton.

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Thu 9 Jun 202205:58
BBC Radio 4

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