Podcasts
These sound bites have been recorded as part of the Dorset AONB Talking Tent project, celebrating 60 years as an outstanding landscape. The recordings capture a taste of what makes places special to the people who live, work here or pop over for a visit. The things we love about our favourite places are as varied as the landscapes themselves … listen on to hear these personal perspectives of why landscapes are very much part of your lives.

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Seatown - The Anchor Pub
How did the pebbles get up into the bank outside the Anchor Pub in Seaton?...

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Names

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Hell Farm, North Chideock

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Charmouth
Jane lives between London and Charmouth and talks to Sarah about what she loves along the coastline

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Walking old hillforts

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Bridport

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Bridport life
Ruby shares her life in Bridport from her family working in the old net factories to modern day

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Hills around Bridport
On life in Bridport and why Ann moved to the area seven years ago

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They are tricksy people that can lead you astray

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Why Colmers Hill has nine pine trees

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What's left is purely the sounds of the sea

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We are only stewards of this land
Martin Maudsley meets West Dorset cider-makers Penny and Oliver Strong.

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Birdwalking

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The jigsaw of our landscape

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Awash with buttercups!

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May Day Celebrations and reflections on Spring
Judi Moore talks to Sarah Acton after the Talking Tent Springtime Walk-shop on Black Down.

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Celebrating May Day with cowslips
Ann Sydney shares this May Day memory from Mary Follett, 90, from Bridport.

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Talking Tent Walk-shop at Durlston Country Park

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Memories of May Days past
Storyteller Martin Maudsley talks about what he loves about May Day

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What spring means to me - thoughts from Sarah Acton

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Let's talk about Spring - Readings by Sarah Acton
Talking Tent host Sarah Acton reads from Thomas Hardy and William Barnes work about spring.

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Let's talk about Spring - Walk-shops
Talking Tent host Sarah Acton invites you to join the Walk-shops in May

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Beaminster Tunnel

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Let's talk about Spring - beltane celebrations
Storyteller Martin Maudsley talks about beltane celebrations in May

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Giant Hill

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