Winter 2023
Immersive soundwalks launch
Inspired by the National Trust’s work on the estate, novelist Ellen Wiles has written and produced two immersive audio story experiences: Riverlandia and Buzzard View. Narrators include Gemma Whelan and Spencer Jones.They can be accessed here.
Riverlandia is a fictional sound story, told by ten human and non-human characters living in a changing river valley, including a beaver, a dragonfly, a fish, a tree and a couple of humans. Inspired by the ecological work of the Riverlands project.
Buzzard View is a literary soundwalk, following a beautiful loop route around the Holnicote Estate, following its landscape, history and ecology. It takes you through woodland, moorland and coast, over a beacon and past buildings old and new. You will encounter stories of past inhabitantsm including the former owners of the estate and regenerative farmers living on the esate today. Buzzard view can be listened to insitu or as a vritual experience.