The Snoseas Podcast
Each episode of Snoseas follows the arc of a session — a single plant from Shakespeare’s writing, a season, a thread of natural history, folklore and etymology — moving toward a moment of stillness. For those who cannot be in the studio. For those who can, and want to go deeper.
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Episode One — The Evolutionary Wizard
Aquilegia (Columbine)
Six point nine million years old. Toxic, beautiful, poetic and perpetually adapting. The first episode of Snoseas explores the aquilegia — from its evolutionary intelligence to Norse mythology, from Ophelia’s grief to the shifting seasons it has already begun to answer.
Series 1 · Episode 1 · Recorded in Totnes, Devon · The seagulls are real
Episode Two — A Woven Tale
Viola odorata
The violet in February.Ovid on the Black Sea. The bee’s map on the petal. The scent that disappears when you reach for it.
Series 1 · Episode 2 · Recorded in Totnes, Devon · The seagulls are real
Episode Three—She Will Always Remember
Salvia rosmarinus
Ficino on the plant’s life-giving odour. Ophelia’s bouquet. A mother writing to her daughter. A manuscript at Trinity College Cambridge. Leaves laid beneath the pillow, and the scent that crosses into sleep itself.
Series 1. Episode 3. Recorded in Totnes, Devon. The seagulls are real.
The Most Useful
Linum Usitatissimum
Ten thousand years of the world's most useful plant — from a blue flower that opens at dawn and falls by afternoon, to the comet stitched into the Bayeux Tapestry, to a Devon estuary that has always depended on it. This episode brings the Requiem arc to a close, as Snoseas awaits the beginning of Invitation.
Series 1 Episode 4. Recorded in Totnes, Devon. The seagulls are real.