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The Nightjar Project: Sound Scrapes  (Sound 6)

Sound Scrapes is part of a project that takes evocative recordings of Ghanaian life and transposes them into related environments here in the New Forest. The Nightjar Project uses the bird’s migration to represent the fluid movement of people, histories, cultures and ideas between the UK and Ghana. 

Story Time

We don’t write stories down because they become fixed and boring. When you tell stories again and again each time, they become different. So, when your grandpa or grandma sits you down every day there is a news subject inside. Every week there are different voices, different readings. Here is one story told in two languages, Gonga and Ashanti. They are slightly Risqué versions of the European tortoise and the hair fable. 

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An Interesting Fact About Nightjars

Nightjar myths are familiar and as strong here as they are in African countries. The Nightjar is known by many names – the Fern Owl, the Wheeler, the Nightchurr and the Dor-Hawk. But the oddest is surely the Goatsucker. Long ago it was thought Nightjars would drink milk directly from goats, poisoning them so their udders wasted away, and they went blind.

Press Play to listen 

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