The ironwork of Arthur Holloway as discussed on I SPY / I HEAR

The ironwork of Arthur Holloway

This ironwork is one of the things discussed in I SPY / I HEAR this week in The Hub. Other things I saw included this horse brass;

...these bee skeps;



...these hand-clappers for scaring away the birds;



...and this mechanical bird-scarer.



To hear me talking with the Museum's Curator - Roy Brigden - you can hear the whole piece on BBC Oxford's iPlayer. You'll only be able to catch it for a week so do tune in while it lasts! If you want to see the collection at MERL yourself, go to the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/merl/.

Mapledurham Lock

Mapledurham Lock, originally uploaded by felixbadanimal.

This is one of the views from the I SPY/I HEAR feature created for this week's episode of The Hub. Tune in on Sunday at 9pm to hear wind in the trees, moorhens, crunchy snow and other beautiful sounds in I SPY/I HEAR.

Coming up this Sunday on The Hub...

We have music from Alice Russel, Noah and the Whale, G Love and the Special Sauce, Esthian 3 and Q tip.

You can get a sneak preview of Esthian 3 over on soundcloud if you fancy it.

Also Vic catches up with the exciting art activities of Launch Collaborative, Loz meets up with Richard Walters, Felix adventures around Reading in Berkshire designing socks and hunting down a salmon ladder so she can tick it off in her vintage I-Spy book, we check out the children's conference on climate-change organised by Ciao! and there is much joking by the team on such issues as Gong Showers and the rarity of shovels in the current, snowy situation.

Tune into 95.2FM, BBC Oxford, at 9pm this Sunday to hear it for yourself.