Open Country Podcast
Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles
Episodes to download
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Common Ground, Dorset
Thu 6 Feb 2014
Helen Mark hears why Dorset was used as a laboratory by the arts group Common Ground.
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Adlestrop
Thu 30 Jan 2014
Helen Mark visits the Gloucestershire village that inspired Edward Thomas's famous poem.
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Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage
Thu 23 Jan 2014
Helen Mark discovers how Lincolnshire's former airfields are being used today.
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Falkland Centre for Stewardship
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Felicity Evans visits Falkland Estate in Fife, home to a former royal palace.
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The Legacy of Flodden Field
Thu 2 Jan 2014
Helen Mark visits the border landscape surrounding the Battle of Flodden.
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Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire
Boxing Day 2013
Helen Mark visits Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire, where festivities include a shoot.
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Royal Haslar Hospital
Thu 19 Dec 2013
Felicity Evans explores the site of the Royal Haslar Naval hospital in Gosport.
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Shropshire Union Canal
Thu 12 Dec 2013
Felicity Evans travels from Beeston to Ellesmere Port along the Shropshire Union Canal.
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Romney Marsh
Thu 5 Dec 2013
Tales of smuggling, a nuclear power station and medieval churches on Romney Marsh.
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The Birds of Lindisfarne
Thu 21 Nov 2013
Helen Mark arrives on Lindisfarne, just as migrating birds flock to this Holy Island.
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Moseley Bog
Thu 14 Nov 2013
Felicity Evans visits the Birmingham bog that inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth.
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Geocaching in Salcey Forest
Thu 7 Nov 2013
Helen Mark joins geocachers from around the world discovering the Salcey Forest.
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Restoring Mountsorrel's Long Forgotten Railway
Thu 31 Oct 2013
One man's 'crazy' idea to restore a forgotten railway track in Leicestershire.
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Celebrating the Plum
Thu 12 Sep 2013
Helen Mark meets Alistair McGowan at a plum festival in the Vale of Evesham.
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Laurie Lee Land
Thu 5 Sep 2013
Helen Mark explores the new life springing up in Laurie Lee's beloved Slad Valley.
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Beer Quarry Caves
Thu 29 Aug 2013
Helen Mark visits Devon's Beer Quarry Caves which supplied Exeter cathedral with limestone
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Skiffs on Loch Broom
Thu 22 Aug 2013
Helen Mark is in Scotland to celebrate a recent boom in skiff-racing.
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The Ants of Longshaw Estate
Thu 15 Aug 2013
Helen Mark visits Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire to meet some very special ants.
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Crossing the Forth
Thu 8 Aug 2013
Open Country marks the naming of the new Forth crossing near Edinburgh.
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Salisbury Plain
Thu 1 Aug 2013
Felicity Evans visits the 'lost' village of Imber on Salisbury Plain.
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A World in a Woodland
Thu 25 Jul 2013
Helen Mark goes to a forest school in woodlands in Gloucestershire.
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Herriot Country
Thu 18 Jul 2013
Felicity Evans visits 'Herriot Country' in Yorkshire, made famous by vet James 'Alf' Wight
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A Tale of Three Piers
Thu 4 Jul 2013
Helen Mark promenades with Timothy West along the pier at Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare.
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The Minack Coast
Thu 16 May 2013
Felicity Evans explores human influence on the coast between the Lizard and Land's End.
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Cannock Chase
Thu 9 May 2013
Jules Hudson visits Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, to find out about its military past.
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Highland Ponies
Thu 2 May 2013
Helen Mark visits the working ponies of the Reay Forest estate in Sutherland.
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Fens of Cambridgeshire
Thu 25 Apr 2013
Felicity Evans visits Fenland Cambridgeshire in search of a Victorian vicar and naturalist
