Anneka Rice on the Nightingale

Available for over a year

A brand new series of Tweet of the Day for Sunday morning revealing personal and fascinating stories from some fresh voices who have been inspired by birds, their calls and encounters. Broadcaster and artist Anneka Rice spent a lot of time when the country was in Lockdown painting nightingales near her home on the Isle of Wight. Centuries before the poet John Keats heard nightingales in woods on the island. It was maybe this experience which inspired Keats to write his Ode to a Nightingale, singing in a landscape - of beechen green, and shadows numberless, a sentiment also loved by Anneka too. A BBC Audio production from Bristol Producer : Andrew Dawes Studio Manager : Tim Allen