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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Restoration in the Lake District
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Ian Marchant talks to people restoring landscapes in the Lake District.
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Dawn Walk
Thu 23 Jul 2020
A coastal dawn walk with wildlife filmmaker John Aitchison in West Scotland.
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Ben Shieldaig
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Helen Mark learns about a Scottish mountain and the village that nestles in it's shadow.
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Landscapes in lockdown
Thu 9 Jul 2020
How archaeologists have made new discoveries about the landscape, even during lockdown.
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Julie Walters on Warley Woods
Thu 2 Jul 2020
Julie Walters shares memories of her favourite childhood park, Warley Woods in Smethwick.
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Closed Country: Changing seasons
Thu 7 May 2020
Helen Mark looks at the changing seasons on her family farm near Limavady in N Ireland.
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Closed Country: A Spring Audio-Diary with Brett Westwood
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Spring - an audio diary with Brett Westwood
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Birmingham Tree City of the World
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Helen Mark finds out why Birmingham is so obsessed with trees.
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The Music of the Surrey Hills
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Ian Marchant explores music inspired by the landscape of the Surrey Hills.
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Small Fish - Big Project
Thu 9 Apr 2020
How a little known fish, rare and remarkable, is behind a huge project on the River Severn
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Closed Country: Helen Glover in her Buckinghamshire back garden.
Thu 2 Apr 2020
Helen Glover discovers what's in her own back garden with the help of Steve Backshall.
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Halsway Manor
Thu 6 Feb 2020
Helen Mark visits the national centre for folk arts which sits in the Quantock Hills.
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Tintagel
Thu 30 Jan 2020
With storms and high winds will Helen Mark be able to cross Tintagel's new bridge?
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Ryebank Fields
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Helen Mark visits Ryebank Fields in Chorlton and asks if it can be saved from development.
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The Chilterns - a new National Landscape?
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Ian Marchant visits the Chilterns, to test ideas from a new review into National Parks.
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Planting Trees to Save the Planet in Cumbria
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Helen Mark meets teenage campaigner Amy Bray planting trees to save the planet in Cumbria.
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Skateboarding in the Woods
Thu 2 Jan 2020
Ruth Sanderson discovers a skateboarding camp, deep in the Forest of Dean.
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In the Bleak Midwinter: Holst's Cotswolds
Boxing Day 2019
Helen Mark considers how composer Gustav Holst's youth in the Cotswolds shaped his work
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Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley examines how the transatlantic slave trade has shaped Bristol.
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Painshill in Surrey - lost and found
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Charles Hamilton's Painshill in Surrey was nearly lost. Helen Mark discovers more.
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The Secret Life of Pigeons
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Join us as we uncover the little-known world of the humble homing pigeon
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Witham Navigable Drains
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Ian Marchant fulfils a boyhood dream, of navigating the Witham Navigable Drains.
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Arnos Vale Cemetery
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Helen Mark explores the landscape of Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol.
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Community Resilience in Toppesfield
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Helen Mark meets the thriving community of Toppesfield.
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One Tree Hill
Thu 7 Nov 2019
One Tree Hill: a landmark that connects us emotionally and confounds us archaeologically
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Folklore and Ghost Stories in Northumberland
Thu 31 Oct 2019
On Halloween, Jez Lowe explores Northumberland's rich folklore, song and ghost stories.
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Rick Stein's Cornwall
Thu 24 Oct 2019
For Rick Stein why Padstow remains old fashioned and that little bit different.
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Darwin鈥檚 Landscape Laboratory
Thu 29 Aug 2019
How Charles Darwin used the plants in his garden to develop his theory of evolution.
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The Centre of the Earth
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Helen Mark journeys to The Centre of the Earth, a hidden nature reserve in Birmingham.
