Birdsong
Director and Producer: Kathleen Harris


Ornithologist Seán Ronayne is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland–nearly 200 birds. He travels to the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to capture its most elusive species and soundscapes: the busy seabird colony of Skellig Michael; a native woodland in the Burren; the corncrake stronghold of Tory Island. Seán’s journey illustrates the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world.


Presented alongside The Last Observers:

Married couple Karin Persson and Lennart Karlsson have spent the last 37 years as weather observers, recording the weather every third hour, day and night, every day of the week. Their daughter portrays their last year before the weather station becomes automated, as all the other weather stations have already been. It is a multifaceted and heartwarming story about many types of love.