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Open Country Episodes

  1. 15/05/2025

    Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain

  2. Shipshape and Bristol Fashion

    How the port of Bristol fundamentally changed the shape of the city and the land around it

  3. Wild and Windy Fylde

    Martha Kearney learns about the part wind has played in shaping the Lancashire landscape.

  4. The People's Forest

    How Epping Forest was fought for, and saved by, the people of East London.

  5. Time travel on Orkney

    Rose Ferraby journeys through the history of the Orkney coastline.

  6. Shifting Sands of Sefton

    An exploration of the Sefton coastline between Liverpool and Southport.

  7. Cornish Mining

    Martha Kearney takes a trip through the past, present and future of mining in Cornwall.

  8. These Debatable Lands

    Helen Mark explores 50 square miles that were neither England nor Scotland.

  9. The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor

    Martha Kearney discovers how one of the UK's largest nature projects is taking root.

  10. Night under the Stars

    Helen Mark joins a group of young carers as they spend a night under canvas on Dartmoor.

  11. Aberaeron's Mackerel Festival

    How mackerel (and other fish) have shaped the people and landscape of Aberaeron.

  12. Wildlife Watching on Mull

    This week, Open Country visits Mull to learn about responsible wildlife watching.

  13. Battery Rocks

    Helen Mark discovers a wilderness in the heart of Penzance.

  14. Football Falcons Rookies and Rooks

    Footballers and birdwatching.

  15. Writing Wildness

    Helen Mark heads to the Shropshire hills to discover how to write about nature.

  16. The Sound of the Fens

    Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.

  17. Anneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in Suffolk

    The landscapes and seascapes that have inspired the artist Maggi Hambling.

  18. Wiltshire's white horses

    Helen Mark explores the chalk hill carvings of the Wiltshire landscape.

  19. Shivering Sands

    Martha Kearney explores the history of the Shivering Sands sea forts off the Kent coast.

  20. Bats on Punts

    Martha Kearney explores the world of nocturnal wildlife in Cambridge.

  21. Gibraltar Point

    Martha Kearney explores the shifting sands of Gibraltar Point, on the Lincolnshire coast.

  22. Mapping Britain's Holloways

    Helen Mark takes a trip along the ancient sunken roads of Dorset.

  23. Darwin's Childhood Garden

    A journey through Charles Darwin鈥檚 childhood garden.

  24. Diving Gannets and Raging Seas

    Martha Kearney gets up close to Bass Rock, one of the world's largest gannet colonies.

  25. Postal Paths and Corpse Roads

    Helen Mark is in Cumbria, finding out about some of the county's historic fell routes.

  26. Britain鈥檚 deadliest footpath

    Helen Mark explores the Broomway in Essex, nicknamed 'Britain's deadliest footpath'.

  27. Field notes from Mars

    Rose Ferraby explores the links between the landscapes of Orkney and the planet Mars.

  28. Tales from the Quoile Riverbank

    Flooding, steamboats and Vikings - Helen Mark charts colourful times on the River Quoile.

  29. Reed cutting at Cley

    Ruth Sanderson meets reed cutters in Norfolk's oldest nature reserve.

  30. The changing river with Philippa Forrester

    Philippa Forrester shares stories about the river in her garden.

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