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The Lake

Home to myths and wildlife, an evocative sound portrait of the UK's largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. From 2009.

An evocative sound portrait of the UK's largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland.

With a shoreline measuring over 70 miles long, this vast stretch of water is more like a sea than a lake.

Recordings made above and below the waves reveal a moody, stormy, wild and even dangerous place where legends of a buried town, a horse god and three sisters emerge from the shallows.

Meanwhile, smoke-like plumes and huge flocks of birds rise from the surface as the seasons unfold.

Producer: Sarah Blunt

First broadcast on 成人论坛 Radio 4 in January 2009.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 31 Oct 2022 03:30

Broadcasts

  • Fri 23 Jan 2009 11:00
  • Sun 5 Apr 2009 13:30
  • Thu 9 Apr 2009 19:30
  • Fri 24 Apr 2015 06:30
  • Fri 24 Apr 2015 13:30
  • Fri 24 Apr 2015 20:30
  • Sat 25 Apr 2015 01:30
  • Mon 8 Oct 2018 06:30
  • Mon 8 Oct 2018 13:30
  • Mon 8 Oct 2018 20:30
  • Tue 9 Oct 2018 01:30
  • Mon 24 Oct 2022 14:30
  • Tue 25 Oct 2022 02:30
  • Sun 30 Oct 2022 15:30
  • Mon 31 Oct 2022 03:30