Residents talk about their experiences of flooding in the Eastbourne and south Wealden area, and some of its causes.

Produced by Stellaria Media - Alice Armstrong and Lucinda Guy
Flutes - Ruth Molins

Featuring the voices of:
Brian Bailey, allotment holder
Neil Raymond, The Star Inn, Old Town
Louise Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Anna Hastings, East Sussex County Council
Ruth Kenwood, Gather Community Garden
Kate Baker, Agile Rabbit
Andy Durling, Eastbourne Eco Action Network
John Hayward, Pevensey Parish Councillor
Dave Roberts, Gather Community Garden
Peter Birchalll, Pete the Pond

Blue Heart 3: Knee Deep In Water

Blue Heart sound profile, produced by Alice Armstrong and Lucinda Guy.

Blue Heart Sound Profiles

Robert Slater at Pevensey Court House

Overview of Blue Heart

An overview of how water behaves in and around Eastbourne and south Wealdon. 

Residents of the area talk about their experiences of flooding, drought and water management, historians explain how things have changed over the centuries, and engineers look to the future and how systems can be managed to build resilience in the face of climate change.

Featuring the voices of:
Anna Hastings, Blue Heart Project Manager, East Sussex County Council
Evan Jones, Ecologist
Andy Durling, Eastbourne Eco Action Network
Lousie Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Sally Lee, Grow Eastbourne
Oliver Sterno, Plastic Free Eastbourne
Kate Baker, Agile Rabbit
Andy Payne, Southdown Angling Association
Chantal Feyn, Eastbourne and District Model Yacht Club
Fiona Durling, Pevensey Forest Garden
Robert Slater, Pevensey Court House and Museum
Katherine Buckland, Heritage Engagement Officer, Eastbourne District Council
Brian Bailey, allotment holder
Neil Raymond, The Star Inn, Old Town
Louise Elms, Eastbourne Allotments and Garden Society
Ruth Kenwood, Gather Community Garden
John Hayward, Pevensey Parish Councillor
Dave Roberts, Gather Community Garden
Peter Birchalll, Pete the Pond
Clare Whistler, Artist, Water Week
Adrian Butcher, Treebourne
Caroline Kimber, Gather Community Garden
Chris Sweetapple, Exeter University

Blue Heart documentary

Recordings from the Communities Conference, held at Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire, UK in July 2022.

Alex Toogood 090722

Stakeholders, residents and visitors discuss the need for sustainable tourism on the Isles of Scilly, with Prof. Jane Wills of Exeter University. Produced by Stellaria Media working with community radio stations, as part of Futures, a festival of discovery for the South-West, funded by UKRI.

Futures On Air: Sustainable Tourism

Annemarie Bala speaks to Dr Anna Walker about their research into the effects of trauma on the body. Anna developed her approach whilst training as a psychotherapist, which led her to PhD research in Arts and Media at Plymouth University.

Produced by Stellaria Media, working with community radio stations, as part of Futures festival of discovery for the South-West, funded by UKRI.

Futures On Air: Trauma

Reading Water’ a collection of audio tracks composed by Mary Hooper for Blue Heart from recorded conversations and field recordings made in and around Westham Pond, Shinewater Lakes and Motcombe Pond. Mary Hooper is an artist working in the public realm, who uses sound as a primary medium to create works to evoke a ‘spirit of place’ by layering
together her recordings into a complex composition of field recordings, oral history, and documentary.

Pond Goddess And Dragons. April 2023

Two compositions by Rosanna Lowe. Liminal Loveliness - West Langney Lake was recorded on site and mixes a poetic response to a surprising wild place with a chance encounter with Alex Richards, who manages the marsh - in loving memory of Sharon Richards; The Holy Well, Eastbourne, mixes a musical response to the seafront spring with a well-side interview with Levi Gardner, who was called by the water to guardian the well.
I am a writer and storyteller, particularly interested in the stories of people and place, and currently focused on our relationship with water, particularly water and wellbeing, following a commission to write about the rivers of the South Downs. This is my first exciting experience of creating an audio piece solo.

LIMINAL LOVELINESS - WEST LANGNEY LAKE

Hermitage Community Moorings

Hillfield Friary

Intro From Hannah Drayson And Team

Ecology Walk And Talk

Recordings made in the 'Voices of Water' workshop at the XMTR festival, mixed with archive material from the Blue Heart project.

Blue Heart at XMTR

Researchers from South-West Universities met at Soundart Radio to record their ideas of what knowledge is. Part of Futures on Air 2025

knowledge-collage

A new series of Futures on Air bringing together research and community radio as part of FUTURES, a South West wide research festival run by the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth and Bath Spa. Funded by UKRI. Produced by Stellaria Media. 

LISTENING

Frieda Gerhardt, Dr Jack Greenhalgh, Laura Welsman, Ergo Phizmiz

Music by Ergo Phizmiz

LISTENING - Futures on Air 2025

A new series of Futures on Air bringing together research and community radio as part of FUTURES, a South West wide research festival run by the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth and Bath Spa. Funded by UKRI. Produced by Stellaria Media. 

MOVING

Professor Vicky Hunter, Dr Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Frieda Gerhardt, Dr Eleanor K Rycroft, Kit Barton.

Projects mentioned:
https://dancingotherwise.com/
https://hospitalsenses.co.uk/
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/news/

Music by Ergo Phizmiz

MOVING - Futures on Air 2025

A new series of Futures on Air bringing together research and community radio as part of FUTURES, a South West wide research festival run by the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth and Bath Spa. Funded by UKRI. Produced by Stellaria Media. 


SAMPLING

Kit Barton, Dr Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Alistair White, Alex James, Ergo Phizmiz ,Lottie Bowater.

Music by Ergo Phizmiz

SAMPLING - Futures on Air 2025

A new series of Futures on Air bringing together research and community radio as part of FUTURES, a South West wide research festival run by the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth and Bath Spa. Funded by UKRI. Produced by Stellaria Media. 

REACTING

Dr Luciana Torquati, Dr Gail Rees, Professor Vicky Hunter, Frieda Gerhardt, Dr Simon Dickinson, Flete Field Lab.

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