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Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles


Episode Date
Postal Paths and Corpse Roads
Apr 18, 2024
Britain’s deadliest footpath
Apr 11, 2024
Field notes from Mars
Apr 04, 2024
Tales from the Quoile Riverbank
Feb 09, 2024
Reed cutting at Cley
Feb 02, 2024
The changing river with Philippa Forrester
Jan 25, 2024
Mabel's mountain trip with hares
Jan 18, 2024
Return of the Derry Girl
Jan 18, 2024
Creative Island with Anneka Rice
Jan 04, 2024
Seeking asylum in nature
Dec 28, 2023
Music of the Gloucestershire landscape
Dec 21, 2023
Wintertide in Hartlepool
Dec 20, 2023
Unearthing the past at Vindolanda
Dec 08, 2023
Wilder London
Nov 30, 2023
Shaky Toun
Nov 23, 2023
Caves and Dragons: Pembrokeshire by Paddleboard
Nov 16, 2023
Mountain Rescue
Nov 16, 2023
Hutting
Nov 02, 2023
Felixstowe with Carolyn Quinn
Sep 14, 2023
Fieldnotes from Eternity
Sep 07, 2023
Stone Circles and Dark Skies in County Tyrone
Aug 31, 2023
Highlands with Horses
Aug 24, 2023
Sound and Light at Dungeness
Aug 17, 2023
Oban Cliff Mystery
Aug 10, 2023
The Isle of Man
Aug 03, 2023
Stories of Sea and Stone
Jul 27, 2023
The Maelor
Jul 20, 2023
Tiny's Cairn
Jul 13, 2023
Inspiration on the Tay
Jul 06, 2023
Wartime Secrets of Coleshill
May 11, 2023
Rhondda valley: a landscape of change
May 04, 2023
Chasing Jamie Allan
Apr 27, 2023
Herefordshire's Golden Valley
Apr 25, 2023
Lost Norfolk
Apr 13, 2023
Saving Our Wild Spaces
Apr 06, 2023
Seahenge
Jan 26, 2023
East Neuk of Fife
Jan 23, 2023
Winter Wonder in East Lothian
Jan 12, 2023
Folk on the Hills
Jan 05, 2023
Ulster Canal: the missing link?
Dec 29, 2022
St Just in Midwinter
Dec 22, 2022
Belfast's Alleyways and Orchards
Dec 15, 2022
The Mendip Hills
Dec 08, 2022
Rutland Water: What lies beneath?
Dec 06, 2022
Opening Up County Down
Dec 01, 2022
Matlock Bath Illuminations
Nov 17, 2022
The Mushroom Man
Nov 10, 2022
Tolkien Land
Nov 07, 2022
The Plock
Oct 27, 2022
Frampton Country Fair
Oct 20, 2022
Gedling Colliery: From Pit to Park
Oct 13, 2022
Beefeater Bend on the Tour de France
Aug 25, 2022
Cornwall with Helen Glover
Aug 18, 2022
Finding Balblair
Aug 11, 2022
Radical Essex
Aug 04, 2022
A new road for Kerrera
Jul 28, 2022
Uncharted Stories of the Causeway Coast
Jul 27, 2022
Aberystwyth Inspiration
Jul 15, 2022
The Search for Summer Snow
Jul 11, 2022
The Book, the Fish and the Dove
Jun 30, 2022
Cornwall’s Steam Heritage
Jun 23, 2022
Erland Cooper's Orkney
Jun 16, 2022
Bath Workhouse Burial Ground
Apr 28, 2022
The Wash
Apr 26, 2022
Mammoth Hunting on the Norfolk Coast
Apr 14, 2022
Husky Sledding in the Cairngorms
Apr 07, 2022
California's Giant Cousins
Jan 29, 2022
Goats on the Gun Batteries
Jan 20, 2022
Ancient Dartmoor
Jan 13, 2022
Classic Rock
Jan 13, 2022
Reflections and Connections
Dec 30, 2021
Bright lights and bees at Blenheim
Dec 23, 2021
The Wall
Dec 16, 2021
Wizards and steam trains on the West Highland Line
Dec 10, 2021
Memorial walks and woodlands
Dec 10, 2021
Kerdroya - The Cornish Labyrinth
Dec 10, 2021
A Tot of Rum
Dec 10, 2021
After Dark on the Brecon Beacons
Dec 02, 2021
Britain's Forgotten Rainforest
Nov 11, 2021
Until the land runs out
Oct 28, 2021
The right to paddle?
Oct 21, 2021
How to build and paint a bird nest
Oct 14, 2021
North Channel
Aug 26, 2021
A Fabric Landscape
Aug 19, 2021
People and Stone
Aug 12, 2021
Northumberland Sound Walk
Aug 05, 2021
Windsor Great Park
Jul 29, 2021
Journey to the Source of the Ancholme
Jul 22, 2021
Durham: Time and the Tides
Jul 15, 2021
Magnet Fishing
Jul 08, 2021
Rare British breeds and their owners
Jul 01, 2021
An Obsession with Forsythia
Jun 24, 2021
Dawn on the Sea Loch
Jun 17, 2021
Tales from the Black Mountains
Apr 29, 2021
Songs of England
Apr 26, 2021
Canna
Apr 26, 2021
Stormont Estate
Apr 26, 2021
Fisherwomen
Apr 22, 2021
Twelve months of Open Country
Feb 04, 2021
Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast
Jan 28, 2021
Windows
Jan 21, 2021
Snowdrop Country
Jan 14, 2021
Brett Westwood and Wyre Forest
Jan 08, 2021
Winter at Binevenagh
Dec 31, 2020
Frank Turner and the Meon Valley
Dec 26, 2020
The Lighthouse on the Headland of the Great Seas
Dec 17, 2020
Kitty Macfarlane and the Somerset Levels
Dec 10, 2020
Rediscovering Redesdale
Dec 03, 2020
Eilean Shona
Nov 26, 2020
New Land Owners, New Visions
Nov 19, 2020
The Sea
Nov 12, 2020
Gilbert White’s Selborne
Nov 05, 2020
The Bord Waalk of Amble
Oct 29, 2020
Ghost Ponds and Underwater Songs
Oct 22, 2020
Cleeve Common
Sep 03, 2020
Brett Westwood's Summer Nature Diary
Aug 27, 2020
Pete Waterman at Braunston Marina
Aug 20, 2020
The Great Spotted Woodpecker Quest
Aug 13, 2020
Green Pavements
Aug 06, 2020
Restoration in the Lake District
Jul 30, 2020
Dawn Walk
Jul 23, 2020
Ben Shieldaig
Jul 16, 2020
Landscapes in lockdown
Jul 09, 2020
Julie Walters on Warley Woods
Jul 02, 2020
Closed Country: Changing seasons
May 07, 2020
Closed Country: A Spring Audio-Diary with Brett Westwood
Apr 30, 2020
Birmingham Tree City of the World
Apr 23, 2020
The Music of the Surrey Hills
Apr 16, 2020
Small Fish - Big Project
Apr 09, 2020
Closed Country: Helen Glover in her Buckinghamshire back garden.
Apr 02, 2020
Halsway Manor
Feb 06, 2020
Tintagel
Jan 30, 2020
Ryebank Fields
Jan 23, 2020
The Chilterns - a new National Landscape?
Jan 16, 2020
Planting Trees to Save the Planet in Cumbria
Jan 09, 2020
Skateboarding in the Woods
Jan 06, 2020
In the Bleak Midwinter: Holst's Cotswolds
Dec 26, 2019
Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade
Dec 19, 2019
Painshill in Surrey - lost and found
Dec 12, 2019
The Secret Life of Pigeons
Dec 05, 2019
Witham Navigable Drains
Nov 28, 2019
Arnos Vale Cemetery
Nov 25, 2019
Community Resilience in Toppesfield
Nov 14, 2019
One Tree Hill
Nov 07, 2019
Folklore and Ghost Stories in Northumberland
Nov 06, 2019
Rick Stein's Cornwall
Oct 24, 2019
Jarvis Cocker's Edale
Sep 05, 2019
Darwin’s Landscape Laboratory
Aug 29, 2019
The Centre of the Earth
Aug 22, 2019
Southwell's Workhouse
Aug 16, 2019
The Isle of Eels
Aug 15, 2019
Inspiration On The Island of Jura
Aug 01, 2019
Rockfield Studios
Jul 25, 2019
Family Monsters Garden in Swaffham and Chelsea
Jul 18, 2019
Ulva - An Island for the People
Jul 11, 2019
Exercise Shallow Grave
Jul 04, 2019
Sussex Weald Ironworking
Jun 12, 2019
Stonehenge and its community
May 09, 2019
George Eliot Country
Apr 25, 2019
Changing Tides at Morecambe Bay
Apr 11, 2019
Surfing on Scotland’s North Coast
Apr 04, 2019
The Pub at the End of Easdale
Jan 31, 2019
The Changing Thetford Forest
Jan 17, 2019
The Strawberry Line Community
Jan 03, 2019
Reservoirs and lost villages
Dec 27, 2018
Moorland on the mend
Dec 20, 2018
Leicester’s hidden gem - Bradgate Park - bought for the locals, but where’s all the archive?
Dec 13, 2018
Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh
Dec 07, 2018
Life on the canals at Foxton Locks
Dec 06, 2018
Ash to Ash
Nov 22, 2018
The Suffolk Maharajah
Nov 15, 2018
Herodsfoot, Thankful Village
Nov 09, 2018
The Windermere Boys
Nov 01, 2018
Liverpool Giants
Oct 25, 2018
The Malvern Hills
Sep 06, 2018
Childhood Holidays in Pembrokeshire
Aug 30, 2018
Purton Hulks
Aug 13, 2018
The First Lundy Marathon
Aug 02, 2018
The Boat Builders of Pin Mill
Jul 26, 2018
The Great Exhibition of the North
Jul 19, 2018
Humphry Repton and his Red Books
Jun 28, 2018
Gertrude Jekyll at 175
May 10, 2018
Swansea Copper and Choir
May 03, 2018
Inspired by flowers, Lincolnshire
Apr 26, 2018
Young people and landscape, Doncaster
Apr 19, 2018
Coventry Edgelands
Apr 12, 2018
The Isle of Gigha
Feb 08, 2018
Konnie Huq goes back to Kew Gardens
Feb 01, 2018
Wild Cats in the Highlands
Jan 18, 2018
Finding Fossils on the Jurassic Coast
Jan 11, 2018
Torridge and Taw, North Devon
Dec 21, 2017
Rewilding at Knepp Castle
Dec 14, 2017
Red Squirrels in Formby
Dec 07, 2017
Visions of Birmingham
Nov 30, 2017
Border Country
Nov 23, 2017
Serpentine on the Lizard, Cornwall
Nov 16, 2017
Bell-ringing in Devon
Nov 09, 2017
Climbing High Pike with Sir Chris Bonington
Nov 02, 2017
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
Oct 26, 2017
Tughall Mill, Northumberland
Sep 07, 2017
The Gardens at Glyndebourne
Sep 05, 2017
The Brecks - East Anglia's Secret
Aug 31, 2017
Huw Stephens at Green Man Festival
Aug 24, 2017
Ballooning in Bristol
Aug 17, 2017
Eliza Carthy in Robin Hood's Bay
Aug 10, 2017
Lincolnshire Bike Night
Jul 27, 2017
Loch Tay and Ben Lawers
Jul 20, 2017
The Dark Side of the Lune
Jul 13, 2017
BBC Monitoring at Caversham
Jul 06, 2017
Wimbledon
Jun 29, 2017
Stonehenge and Mental Health
Jun 15, 2017
Lough Neagh
May 11, 2017
Blencathra: The People's Mountain
May 04, 2017
The Future of Sherwood Forest
Apr 27, 2017
Skiving at Poverty Bottom, Newhaven
Apr 19, 2017
Learning from the Wild in Dartington
Apr 19, 2017
The Mildenhall Treasure
Feb 02, 2017
Underground Bristol
Jan 26, 2017
London: A National Park City?
Jan 18, 2017
Barton-upon-Humber Clay Pits
Jan 12, 2017
Winter Solstice at Newgrange
Dec 22, 2016
Wordsworth's County Remade
Dec 15, 2016
Whitelee Windfarm on Eaglesham Moor
Dec 08, 2016
Belvoir Castle and its 'Capability' Brown Landscape
Dec 01, 2016
Sathnam Sanghera goes home to Wolverhampton
Nov 24, 2016
David Lindo on the Isle of Man
Nov 17, 2016
Snowdonia Marathon
Nov 10, 2016
Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean
Nov 03, 2016
Off Grid in Mid-Wales
Oct 27, 2016
Bellaghy - Seamus Heaney's Homeplace
Sep 08, 2016
Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens
Sep 01, 2016
Helen Baxendale visits Belper in Derbyshire
Aug 25, 2016
Spurn Point Lifeboat Station
Aug 18, 2016
The 'Man Engine' in Cornwall's mining landscape
Aug 11, 2016
Orkney Wildlife in Crisis
Aug 04, 2016
Capability Brown at 300
Jul 28, 2016
Biodiversity at Heathrow
Jul 23, 2016
The Dolphins of Cardigan Bay
Jul 14, 2016
Bishop Auckland, History in Production
Jul 07, 2016
Midsummer Music in Orkney
Jun 30, 2016
Dawn Chorus across Europe
May 12, 2016
Tennyson's Lincolnshire
May 05, 2016
Southwell Races, Nottinghamshire
Apr 25, 2016
The National Forest: 25 Years
Apr 22, 2016
Old Oswestry Hillfort
Apr 21, 2016
Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys
Apr 13, 2016
Welsh Valleys after Coal
Mar 04, 2016
Return to the Fens
Feb 11, 2016
Scowles in the Forest of Dean
Jan 28, 2016
Somerset Peat: Past, Present and Future
Jan 21, 2016
Yorkshire in the Dark
Jan 14, 2016
River Tay
Jan 07, 2016
The Northern Lights at Christmas
Dec 17, 2015
Lincolnshire Coast Revival
Dec 10, 2015
Pendle Hill, Lancashire
Nov 26, 2015
Prehistoric Gower
Nov 20, 2015
Tollesbury Wick in Essex
Nov 18, 2015
Big Chill in Llanthony
Oct 29, 2015
The Peak District
Sep 03, 2015
The Glenfinnan Gathering
Aug 27, 2015
Cornish Alps
Aug 20, 2015
Jersey Shores
Aug 13, 2015
Thomas Hardy's Dorset
Aug 06, 2015
Rathlin Island
Jul 30, 2015
The North Antrim Coast
Jul 23, 2015
Ospreys in Cumbria
Jul 22, 2015
Celebrating Golowan in Cornwall
Jul 09, 2015
The Lengthsman with Antony Gormley
Jul 02, 2015
The ancient sport of hound trailing in Cumbria
May 14, 2015
Landscape Art in Northumberland
May 07, 2015
The Solway Shore
Apr 23, 2015
The Hoo Peninsula
Apr 09, 2015
CS Lewis Nature Reserve, Oxfordshire
Apr 02, 2015
Shetland
Feb 05, 2015
Churchill's Chartwell in Kent
Feb 02, 2015
The Ring of Gullion
Jan 29, 2015
The Purbeck Clay Mines
Jan 15, 2015
Wiltshire Wellbeing Group
Jan 08, 2015
Suffolk Coast
Jan 01, 2015
Dart Estuary
Dec 27, 2014
Christmas Trees at Castle Howard
Dec 18, 2014
Nature Reserves in Cumbria
Dec 15, 2014
Belfast Hills
Dec 04, 2014
Brownsea Island, Dorset
Nov 27, 2014
Steart Peninsula, Somerset
Nov 20, 2014
Lee Valley
Nov 13, 2014
Orchards in Herefordshire
Nov 06, 2014
Elmley Nature Reserve
Oct 30, 2014
Dennis Potter and the Forest of Dean
Sep 11, 2014
The John Muir Way
Sep 04, 2014
The Needles, Isle of Wight
Aug 28, 2014
Cheshire Salt
Aug 21, 2014
Chalk Streams
Aug 14, 2014
The Bournville Legacy
Aug 07, 2014
Slate Mines, Snowdonia
Jul 31, 2014
Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire
Jul 24, 2014
Hafod, Mid Wales
Jul 17, 2014
Rural Murals in Dumfries and Galloway
Jul 10, 2014
Tour de Yorkshire
Jul 03, 2014
Life on Coquet Island
May 15, 2014
Brooklands Racetrack
May 08, 2014
The Avon Gorge, Bristol
May 01, 2014
Walking on Water, Isles of Scilly
Apr 24, 2014
Heritage Cotton Mills, Derbyshire
Apr 17, 2014
Brecon Beacons, Waterfall Country
Apr 10, 2014
British Raj in the Peak District
Apr 03, 2014
Chelford Cattle Market
Mar 27, 2014
Common Ground, Dorset
Feb 06, 2014
Adlestrop
Jan 30, 2014
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage
Jan 23, 2014
Falkland Centre for Stewardship
Jan 16, 2014
Strangford Lough
Jan 09, 2014
The Legacy of Flodden Field
Jan 02, 2014
Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Dec 26, 2013
Royal Haslar Hospital
Dec 19, 2013
Shropshire Union Canal
Dec 12, 2013
Romney Marsh
Dec 05, 2013
The Birds of Lindisfarne
Nov 21, 2013
Moseley Bog
Nov 14, 2013
Geocaching in Salcey Forest
Nov 07, 2013
Restoring Mountsorrel's Long Forgotten Railway
Oct 31, 2013
Celebrating the Plum
Sep 12, 2013
Laurie Lee Land
Sep 05, 2013
Beer Quarry Caves
Aug 29, 2013
Skiffs on Loch Broom
Aug 22, 2013
The Ants of Longshaw Estate
Aug 20, 2013
Crossing the Forth
Aug 08, 2013
Salisbury Plain
Aug 01, 2013
A World in a Woodland
Jul 25, 2013
Herriot Country
Jul 18, 2013
Teifi Valley
Jul 11, 2013
A Tale of Three Piers
Jul 04, 2013
Highland Ponies
May 17, 2013
Cannock Chase
May 17, 2013
The Minack Coast
May 16, 2013
Fens of Cambridgeshire
Apr 25, 2013
Lyme Regis
Apr 18, 2013
Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire
Apr 15, 2013
Springtime in Galloway
Apr 04, 2013
Nuns of Yorkshire
Mar 28, 2013
Inishowen
Mar 21, 2013
Johnsons Island
Jan 31, 2013
Memories of the Black Isle
Jan 24, 2013
Marshes of Norfolk
Jan 17, 2013
Heritage at Risk - West Midlands
Jan 10, 2013
Hastings: The Shingle Fleet
Jan 03, 2013
Finding Neverland
Dec 27, 2012
Christmas in Norfolk
Dec 20, 2012
The Canal That Never Was
Dec 06, 2012
Beasts of Brighton
Dec 03, 2012
Atlantic College at 50
Nov 29, 2012
Snowdonia
Nov 22, 2012
Hicks Lodge/National Forest
Nov 01, 2012
Moray Firth
Sep 13, 2012
Isle of Bute
Sep 06, 2012
Ireland - Peat
Aug 16, 2012
Lughnasa Festival
Aug 09, 2012
Urban Wildlife
Aug 02, 2012
White Cliffs of Dover
Jul 26, 2012
Hampstead Heath Ponds
Jul 19, 2012
12/07/2012
Jul 12, 2012
Eels
Jul 05, 2012
Devon Farm Vet
May 10, 2012
Northamptonshire Inspiration
May 03, 2012
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Apr 26, 2012
Herefordshire Churches
Apr 19, 2012
Drought
Apr 05, 2012
29/03/2012
Mar 29, 2012
22/03/2012
Mar 22, 2012
02/02/2012
Feb 02, 2012
26/01/2012
Jan 26, 2012
19/01/2012
Jan 19, 2012
Olympics
Jan 12, 2012
Knockando Woolmill
Jan 05, 2012
29/12/2011
Dec 29, 2011
22/12/2011
Dec 22, 2011
Snowdonia: Search and Rescue Dog Association
Dec 15, 2011
Lancashire: Shale Gas
Dec 08, 2011
03/12/2011
Dec 01, 2011
24/11/2011
Nov 24, 2011
17/11/2011
Nov 17, 2011
10/11/2011
Nov 10, 2011
Horseback UK
Nov 05, 2011
The Dark Peaks
Nov 03, 2011
Heather Moorland
Sep 10, 2011
Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners
Sep 03, 2011
The Devil's Beeftub
Aug 27, 2011
Island Revival
Aug 20, 2011
13/08/2011
Aug 13, 2011
06/08/2011
Aug 06, 2011
30/07/2011
Jul 30, 2011
Northumberlandia
Jul 23, 2011
The South Downs - An Inspirational Landscape
Jul 16, 2011
Trailblaze on the South Downs
Jul 09, 2011
Hay Meadows
Jul 02, 2011
Foot and Mouth - Ten Years On
May 14, 2011
Welsh Highland Railway
May 07, 2011
Mingulay
Apr 30, 2011
Herefordshire film
Apr 23, 2011
Sherwood Forest
Apr 09, 2011
Durham Heritage Coast
Apr 02, 2011
Edgelands
Mar 26, 2011
Death on the Moors
Mar 19, 2011
Weather in Wiltshire
Jan 29, 2011
Portbury Wharf
Jan 22, 2011
Yurts
Jan 15, 2011
High Speed Rail
Jan 08, 2011
River Thames
Jan 01, 2011
Mistletoe
Dec 25, 2010
18/12/2010
Dec 18, 2010
Wildlife Crime
Dec 11, 2010
Lighthouse
Dec 04, 2010
Ardtornish
Nov 27, 2010
New Forest Mushrooms
Nov 20, 2010
Ayrshire
Nov 13, 2010
Resistance
Nov 06, 2010
Pluckley: The Most Haunted Village in Britain
Oct 30, 2010
Leeds-Liverpool Canal
Sep 11, 2010
Conservation Grazing in Cornwall
Sep 04, 2010