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As the Season Turns

This guide to the month ahead will help you to settle deeper into the seasons. On the first of the month, nature writer Lia Leendertz presents natural history, music and folklore in our engaging patchwork format. While in our mid-month Found Sounds series, field recordist Alice Boyd meets people inspired by folk arts and the landscape. As the Season Turns is created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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Found Sound for October: Emma Thistlethwaite Oct 16, 2026

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For October, Alice visits Emma Thistlethwaite, founder of floral design studio Thistle by Nature, at her workshop in Gloucestershire. As autumn settles in, Emma weaves a wreath from heather, while they talk about circles and cycles, the stories held in plants, and valuing place through flower arrangement. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people who help us strengthen our connection to nature. They are part of As the Season Turns, the award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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October Oct 01, 2026

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For October we’re amid grass-spiked sand dunes, where small birds scrap over autumn berries. Late bees search for nectar ahead of winter, a rare toad crouches amid the roses and sea buckthorn, and the wind whistles, carrying songs of mermaids in from the sea. In the water, flounders flip and shimmy through the shallows, while in the sky above we see the trail of a great comet. If you enjoyed October, we'd love you to vote for As the Season Turns in the Signal Listeners' Choice Awards. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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Found Sound for September: Charlotte Church Sep 18, 2026

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For September, Alice visits iconic Welsh singer Charlotte Church at The Dreaming, the retreat she has created in the Welsh countryside. Alice and Charlotte explore the ancient Welsh rainforest as their conversation moves through nature, music, ritual and creativity - and our relationship with the land. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people who help us strengthen our connection to nature. They are part of As the Season Turns, the award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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September Sep 01, 2026

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For September, we’re on a shingle beach, where the shifting pebbles reveal unexpected life. Tall stalks of wild fennel have long memories to share, while above us black-headed gulls call insistently in the fading sky. At sea, tiger-striped mackerel slip and shimmer through the waves, displacing the water as our feet dislodge small lichens on shore, where we listen out for story and song. This is an edgeland, where nothing stays the same for long... As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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Found sound For August: Jackie Morris Aug 14, 2026

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Jackie Morris has the word ‘entrance’ on her studio floor - to remind her that’s her job, she says. For August, Alice visited Jackie at home on the wild Pembrokeshire coast, to be entranced by Jackie’s reflections on her extraordinary career as one of Britain’s most celebrated illustrators, revealing an artistic practice rooted in her deep belief that we are not separate from nature, but part of it. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people who help us strengthen our connection to nature. They are part of As the Season Turns, the award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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August Aug 01, 2026

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In this August episode, it’s an unsettled day on the estuary. As the tide retreats the mud gives up its treasures - molluscs, aromatic wild herbs and the calls of wetland birds. In the water, small sharks scull through the shallows, while back on shore we hear tales of transformation, and a gentle song of the harvest. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co - and if you would like to help us develop the podcast for the future, you can fill out our survey at www.ffern.co/podcast/survey. A lucky few people who support the survey will be selected to receive one of our special seasonal candles as a thanks from us.

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Found Sound for July: Errol Reuben Fernandes Jul 17, 2026

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This July, Alice meets gardener and artist Errol Reuben Fernandes, Head of Horticulture at south east London’s Horniman Museum and Gardens. Errol leads Alice to an overlooked place that’s been special to him since childhood - an abandoned brownfield site that nonetheless thrums with life. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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July Jul 01, 2026

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For July, we’ve arrived by the sea - strolling along the rocky shore to find fossils at our feet, while swifts and swallows whisk along the sand. The rockpools burst with anemones and crabs, and we forage for seaweed along the tidelines. Lisa Knapp sings goodbye to the cuckoo, soon to fly from these shores. As the Season Turns is an award-winning podcast presented by Lia Leendertz and created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co - and if you would like to help us develop the podcast for the future, you can fill out our survey at www.ffern.co/podcast/survey. A lucky few people who support the survey will be selected to receive one of our special seasonal candles as a thanks from us.

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As the Season Turns presents Muco and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Jun 26, 2026

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As the Season Turns presents singer and composer Muco as he ventures to find a hidden Medieval chapel in Dorset and share his unique musical interpretation of the Arthurian legend – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – commissioned by Ffern for their Summer 26 Green Knight season.

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Found Sound for June : Muco Jun 19, 2026

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For June, Alice travels to Swanage in Dorset to meet the songwriter and composer Muco. Together they take a walk through Studland Woods, where he spent time as a child, reflecting on the influence of his mother and father on his love of words, his passion for old and middle English and his love of interpreting stories and folklore from Burundian and English traditions. As they walk Muco plays folk songs with the Inanga to bring in the Summer. Found Sounds are sonic scrapbooks of field recordings and interviews with people keeping heritage crafts alive. They are part of As the Season Turns, an award-winning podcast created by Ffern, makers of small-batch, seasonal perfume. To find out more visit www.ffern.co

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