At this time when everything is so uncertain around us, it is pure joy to listen to the recordings of Vladimir Kryuchev in his home town of Sergiyev Posad in Russia.  He is an international award-winning audio producer and has just won the top radio prize in Russia for 'The Bots and Spammers Dating Club' but it's his portrayal of his community, his town and surrounding villages, that, for me, is his overriding achievement.  Just sit back and enjoy his gentle voice and the touching vision of a Russia that we never normally see.
This podcast features the following field recordings made by Vladimir Kryuchev all available to listen to on his website https://www.oontz.ru/en
which has a choice of viewing in Russian or English.
1. The Dubrava Muzyka festival.
2. Sounds of twilight in Sergiyev Posad: from the open windows and elsewhere
3. The beggar’s song, Blinnaya Mount
4. Sound recording of the construction workers from Uzbekistan plastering a wall of a building on Vifanskaya street
5. The would-be priests choir (Moscow Theological Academy)
6. Krasnozavodsk brass band
and we end with 'Ringing Up The Curtain':  'Operated by the ticket-collector the old-fashioned buzzer marks the beginning of a play at the Oktyabr concert hall and youth centre on the outskirts of Sergiyev Posad. People rushing in a hurry, tip-up seats’ claps and the background music once used as the weather forecast signature tune by the USSR TV.'
and several others!
With many thanks to Vladimir and all the people and trees and traffic and trains and rivers and rain he has recorded!