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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Mingulay
Sat 30 Apr 2011
Helen Mark visits Barra in the Outer Hebrides to hear about island life past and future.
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Horseback UK
Sat 16 Apr 2011
Helen Mark is in Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire to find out about Horseback UK.
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Sherwood Forest
Sat 9 Apr 2011
Richard Uridge finds out that there's more to Sherwood Forest than Robin Hood.
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Durham Heritage Coast
Sat 2 Apr 2011
Helen Mark visits the transformed landscape of the Durham Heritage Coast.
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Death on the Moors
Sat 19 Mar 2011
Is the iconic Dartmoor pony under threat? Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to find out.
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Weather in Wiltshire
Sat 29 Jan 2011
Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about a very British obsession.
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Portbury Wharf
Sat 22 Jan 2011
Helen Mark meets Bristol city dwellers developing a nature reserve on their doorstep.
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Yurts
Sat 15 Jan 2011
Meet those who are braving the winter to live like nomads in their yurt high up on Exmoor.
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High Speed Rail
Sat 8 Jan 2011
The proposals for high speed rail in Buckinghamshire that are provoking protest campaigns.
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River Thames
New Year's Day 2011
Helen Mark discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames.
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18/12/2010
Sat 18 Dec 2010
Helen Mark is in Dorset to find out how marine life can impact on the local community.
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Lighthouse
Sat 4 Dec 2010
We explore how the UK's only independently-run lighthouse, in Happisburgh, has survived.
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Ardtornish
Sat 27 Nov 2010
Helen Mark visits Ardtornish estate in Morvern, in the western Highlands of Scotland.
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Ayrshire
Sat 13 Nov 2010
Helen Mark hears how a forest of ten million conifers changed Ayrshire's Whitelee Plateau.
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Pluckley: The Most Haunted Village in Britain
Sat 30 Oct 2010
What is life like in Britain's most haunted village? Helen Mark is in Pluckley to find out
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Conservation Grazing in Cornwall
Sat 4 Sep 2010
Helen Mark is in Cornwall to find out about some new features of the landscape.
