Kingsley Buddle

In the rich, diverse, and of course, vibrant procession of idiot Australian media naturalists, Kingsley Buddle must always rank last.

Kingsley interviews flowers. He compares the songs of twigs, of people walking through leaves, of koalas staring at streams.

These historical recordings come from the Highland FM Radio Stereo Nature Recording Group, an enthusiastic task force of loping halfwits whose brief was to bring the sounds of the Australian Bush into your home. Wind. Water. Trees growing. In living stereo.

Kingsley was first heard on community radio station 2WKT, in rural New South Wales. Listeners excitedly changed stations whenever Kingsley Buddle came on the air, and sponsorship fell to a dangerous low, but Kingley's story has a poignant ending. While in full pursuit of the never-before captured sound of a wallaby laughing, Kingley's cable-knit jumper caught on a barbed wire fence, and the engineering team was compelled to leave him behind, trapped forever, microphone in hand, somewhere deep in the sclerophylla. In memory of Kingsley and his relentless pursuit of rare bushland sonority, these archival materials are submitted for your listening alarm.