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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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
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Lyme Regis
Thu 18 Apr 2013
Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis' Undercliffs, a jungle created by 200 years of landslips.
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Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire
Thu 11 Apr 2013
Felicity Evans follows the Pembrokeshire footsteps of abstract artist Graham Sutherland.
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Springtime in Galloway
Thu 4 Apr 2013
Helen Mark is in Scottish Dumfries and Galloway for their 10th annual Wild Spring Festival
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Nuns of Yorkshire
Thu 28 Mar 2013
Helen Mark visits the sisters of the environmentally-friendly Stanbrook Abbey in Yorkshire
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Inishowen
Thu 21 Mar 2013
Helen Mark explores the landscape and shoreline of the Inishowen Peninsula.
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Johnsons Island
Thu 31 Jan 2013
Helen Mark discovers the little-known Johnsons Island and the community surrounding it.
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Memories of the Black Isle
Thu 24 Jan 2013
Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle where residents are collecting landscape memories.
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Marshes of Norfolk
Thu 17 Jan 2013
Felicity Evans finds that it's not just migrating birds that settle in Cley Marshes.
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Heritage at Risk - West Midlands
Thu 10 Jan 2013
Jules Hudson visits the West Midlands to ask why so much of our heritage is at risk.
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Hastings: The Shingle Fleet
Thu 3 Jan 2013
Helen Mark visits the ancient fishing community in Hastings, down on the shingle beach.
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Finding Neverland
Thu 27 Dec 2012
On the edge of JM Barrie's Kirriemuir, Helen Mark discovers the real Never Never Land.
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Christmas in Norfolk
Thu 20 Dec 2012
Helen Mark is in Norfolk where preparations for Christmas are well underway.
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The Canal That Never Was
Thu 6 Dec 2012
Jules Hudson discovers the secrets of 'The Canal That Never Was'.
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Atlantic College at 50
Thu 29 Nov 2012
Felicity Evans visits Atlantic College in south Wales - set up to promote peace.
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Hicks Lodge/National Forest
Thu 1 Nov 2012
Helen Mark visits a restored open cast mine in Leicestershire, now a haven for wildlife.
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Isle of Bute
Thu 6 Sep 2012
Helen Mark goes 'doon the watter' to explore the Isle of Bute, off Scotland's west coast.
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Ireland - Peat
Thu 16 Aug 2012
Helen Mark is in Ireland, looking at attitudes down the centuries to the peat bogs.
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Lughnasa Festival
Thu 9 Aug 2012
Helen Mark is in Ireland to celebrate the ancient Celtic harvest festival of Lughnasa.
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Urban Wildlife
Thu 2 Aug 2012
Jules Hudson visits West London in search of the wildlife that calls the city home.
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White Cliffs of Dover
Thu 26 Jul 2012
Helen Mark meets Dame Vera Lynn to discuss an iconic landmark, the white cliffs of Dover.
