Open Country Episodes Episode guide
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25/09/2025
Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain
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Fair Isle
Martha Kearney is on one of Britain's most isolated islands, famous for knitting and birds
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The Menai Strait
Martha Kearney visits the stretch of water which separates Anglesey from mainland Wales.
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Pingos and Pool Frogs
Martha Kearney visits the Ice Age ponds called pingos which are being brought back to life
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Exploring the Lakes by wheelchair
Caz Graham tries out a scheme which helps disabled people access the Lake District
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Aeolian harps on Wicken Fen
Martha Kearney learns to make an aeolian harp on Wicken Fen
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Flutterings on the Fleet
Martha Kearney meets little terns and swans by Dorset's unique and beautiful Fleet Lagoon.
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion
How the port of Bristol fundamentally changed the shape of the city and the land around it
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Wild and Windy Fylde
Martha Kearney learns about the part wind has played in shaping the Lancashire landscape.
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The People's Forest
How Epping Forest was fought for, and saved by, the people of East London.
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Time travel on Orkney
Rose Ferraby journeys through the history of the Orkney coastline.
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Shifting Sands of Sefton
An exploration of the Sefton coastline between Liverpool and Southport.
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Cornish Mining
Martha Kearney takes a trip through the past, present and future of mining in Cornwall.
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These Debatable Lands
Helen Mark explores 50 square miles that were neither England nor Scotland.
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The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor
Martha Kearney discovers how one of the UK's largest nature projects is taking root.
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Night under the Stars
Helen Mark joins a group of young carers as they spend a night under canvas on Dartmoor.
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Aberaeron's Mackerel Festival
How mackerel (and other fish) have shaped the people and landscape of Aberaeron.
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Wildlife Watching on Mull
This week, Open Country visits Mull to learn about responsible wildlife watching.
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Battery Rocks
Helen Mark discovers a wilderness in the heart of Penzance.
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Football Falcons Rookies and Rooks
Footballers and birdwatching.
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Writing Wildness
Helen Mark heads to the Shropshire hills to discover how to write about nature.
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The Sound of the Fens
Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.
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Anneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in Suffolk
The landscapes and seascapes that have inspired the artist Maggi Hambling.
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Wiltshire's white horses
Helen Mark explores the chalk hill carvings of the Wiltshire landscape.
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Shivering Sands
Martha Kearney explores the history of the Shivering Sands sea forts off the Kent coast.
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Bats on Punts
Martha Kearney explores the world of nocturnal wildlife in Cambridge.
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Gibraltar Point
Martha Kearney explores the shifting sands of Gibraltar Point, on the Lincolnshire coast.
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Mapping Britain's Holloways
Helen Mark takes a trip along the ancient sunken roads of Dorset.
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Darwin's Childhood Garden
A journey through Charles Darwin’s childhood garden.
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Diving Gannets and Raging Seas
Martha Kearney gets up close to Bass Rock, one of the world's largest gannet colonies.