Birds and the Battlefield on BBC R4
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The following was broadcast yesterday on BBC R4 and is available for seven days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbf2j .
Birds and the Battlefield
Last broadcast 06 Jan 2009, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, himself a keen bird watcher, examines the sometimes surprising links between soldiers and birds and the comfort soldiers find in such an interest in times of extreme stress. It is a relationship that can be traced from those who served in the WWI trenches to troops currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Featuring interviews with current servicemen and women as well as letters from the front, poetry, music and birdsong.
Gardner talks to several servicemen about birding in conflict zones. Several authors are mentioned, few of whom appear in the touchstones: the WWI poet John William Streets ("A Lark above the Trenches"), Charles Raven ("In Praise of Birds"), ex-POW John Buxton ("The Redstart" in the Collins New Naturalists series), J M Harrison, Richard Richardson and Siegfried Sassoon.
Enjoy!
Birds and the Battlefield
Last broadcast 06 Jan 2009, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, himself a keen bird watcher, examines the sometimes surprising links between soldiers and birds and the comfort soldiers find in such an interest in times of extreme stress. It is a relationship that can be traced from those who served in the WWI trenches to troops currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Featuring interviews with current servicemen and women as well as letters from the front, poetry, music and birdsong.
Gardner talks to several servicemen about birding in conflict zones. Several authors are mentioned, few of whom appear in the touchstones: the WWI poet John William Streets ("A Lark above the Trenches"), Charles Raven ("In Praise of Birds"), ex-POW John Buxton ("The Redstart" in the Collins New Naturalists series), J M Harrison, Richard Richardson and Siegfried Sassoon.
Enjoy!
