The first programme looks or listens for the the hearbeat of life - music, through the bicycle diaries of Séamus Ennis. The 23 year old cyclist from Finglas traversing the country collecting music, song and story for the Folklore Commission during the War years was a fit young man, in every sense of the word, by all accounts. He was known to have cycled from Dublin to Carna in a single day. The handsome young piper cut quite a dash among the young women of Conamara, Clare, Donegal and Muscraí at house dances and céilithe. Renowned for his unfailing ability to embrace the authentic, Séamus Ennis would go on to become the greatest piper of his generation. And if that wasn't enough, the body of music and song collected by him, has, like the man himself, become something of a national treasure. His field notes and diaries are works of art, a living source from which generations of musicians yet unborn will continue to draw inspiration as they, in their turn, journey to the well for water.