British sound artist Stuart Fowkes has been collecting the sounds of lockdown in his online archive Cities and Memory — from owls calls in the busy port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, to the quiet sounds of bedtime stories being read aloud in Finland. Host Marco Werman speaks to Fowkes.
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