Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 3,04 Apr 2014,15 mins

SeriesSpringwalks

Philip Hoare in Sholing

The Essay

Available for over a year

Five writers set out on foot to sample the transforming qualities of Spring. They report back with tales that are climatically confused - it could be warm or chilly out there ... 5. Philip Hoare is quickly at the water's edge in Sholing, well before the waking hour. Then meetings with many animals are recalled. Producer Duncan Minshull.

Programme Website
More episodes