Tonal – Rivers Beyond Sewage
Tonal - Rivers Beyond Sewage
Podcast Description
TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage explores water issues nationally with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have different and profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us on a deep dive into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor. Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself.Artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. They work to explore and expand our relationship to other species and the living earth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast covers a range of themes including environmental advocacy, water quality, community initiatives, and artistic interpretations of water issues. Specific episodes feature topics such as the historical relationship of woolen cloth making with local waterways, the campaign for bathing water status in French Weir Park, the intersection of queerness and biodiversity in river ecosystems, and a deep dive into river pollution and its repercussions.
TONAL – Rivers Beyond Sewage reaches behind the headlines to explore water issues in the UK, through the lens of the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have profound relationships with water, artist Feral Practice leads us into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.
Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself. Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. Their work explores and expands our relationship to other species and the natural world.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We join Richard on his monthly visit to River Tone in Runnington, to learn how riverfly kick sampling works. For three minutes, Richard kicks up the mud/gravel/stones of the river and catches the creatures that float free in his net, then we count and identify them. Like pond dipping, it’s great fun, but somewhat fiendish because most of the minibeasts are, well, tiny, especially in the winter. It’s also very important, because riverflies are the ‘canaries in the coalmine’ of river health.
There has been a severe drop in numbers of riverflies in our polluted riverscapes since the 60s. We met Richard in a lovely, rural bit of river, and so together we find quite a lot to marvel at, including larvae of Caddis, Mayflies, Olives, Stone Clingers and Damselfly.
Learn a bit about the riverflies’ lifecycles, and enjoy this peaceful live-action episode, starring River Tone on a mild damp September day. More info here: https://www.riverflies.org/
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