Sounding Post by Falling Tree Productions

In this composed feature, Nina Perry explores the relationship between music and wood by tracing the origins of the wood used in the making of a musical instrument back to a tree in the forest.

With contributions from guitarist Laurence Juber, Irish flute maker Martin Doyle, forester Martin Charlton, wood supplier David Dyke, luthier Martin Bowers, Paul Scott of the Greenpeace Music Wood Campaign and craftsmen and villagers from the Mpingo Conservation Project in eastern Tanzania.

First broadcast on 9th May 2008 BBC Radio 4
Produced by Nina Perry