The Plodcast

293. A quest for spring birdsong in a Welsh woodland - plus a reading by author Kerri Andrews

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, join Plodcast host Fergus Collins as he explores a local woodland for the first time in search of a legendary woodpecker – with gorgeous ...

Sound Escape 215. Listen to spring birdsong along a country lane

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A muddy farm track separates willow woodland from a wide expanse of marshland. You pause to listen to linnets commuting from wood to water meadow whil...

292. Talking big farming issues in a walk through a forgotten landscape in Leicestershire

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're in Leicestershire exploring the beautiful Welland Valley with countryside writer and farming expert Tim Relf. Plodcast host Fergus wa...

Sound Escape 214. Stand on an ancient bridge and listen to a clear stream flowing beneath

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You've discovered a forgotten valley in the Blackdown Hills. After descending an ancient holloway, you arrive at a bridge over a chuckling stream. Wil...

291. Explore a rewilding project in Lincolnshire with artist Hannah Dale

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Head to Lincolnshire in the east of England to explore an exciting new rewilding project. Hannah Dale is an artist and farmer who struggled to make a ...

Sound Escape 213. The atmosphere of the Giant's Grave, an ancient burial mound in Wiltshire

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On a long, lonely walk across the windswept open lands of the Marlborough Downs, you come across a large, oval barrow partially hidden in a stand of t...

290. How being in the moment in nature can bring lasting happiness

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do we spend too much time thinking and not enough time simply being? Life coach Dr Giles Croft reveals how being out in nature and learning to not tak...

Sound Escape 212. A burst of early spring birdsong on a rare sunny day

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After many days of wet, grey gloom, a hopeful sunny day hints at spring – and draws out the birds in a public garden deep in the Welsh borders. Grea...

289. Discover the extraordinary magnetism of the Welsh Marches, with writer Mike Parker

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Walk Hergest Ridge in Herefordshire on the Welsh border in the company of walker and writer Mike Parker who has spent years exploring the unique peopl...

Sound Escape 211. Enjoy tawny owls calling in a woodland - recorded by author Polly Atkin

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The winter calls of tawny owls pierce the night in a Cumbrian woodland. The wind roars through the trees like a stormy sea. This is a special recordin...

288. A quest to explore the ancient burial mounds of the Marlborough Downs

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a bright, beautiful morning so join Plodcast host Fergus for a wander into the soft chalk hills known as the Marlborough Downs of Wiltshire to hu...

Sound Escape 210. The refreshing sound of rushing Dartmoor stream

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Swollen by winter rains, a tiny stream, known as a rill, swarms almost vertically down a cleft in the hillside. As you listen from a bridge above, the...

287. A wander on the Cornish coast with wildlife presenter and podcaster Gillian Burke

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoy a wander and deep dive into some of the big issues facing our wild world with zoologist and BBC tv presenter Gillian Burke during a beautiful wa...

Sound Escape 209. Be beguiled by a song thrush singing at dawn

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Early morning on the farm and a song thrush's strident spring call rises above the chatter of starlings and jackdaws. Beautiful and haunting in the co...

286. Music and magic on the Dorset coast with folk musicians Ninebarrow

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join intrepid folk duo Ninebarrow (Jon Whitley and Jay Labouchardiere) for a Plodcast wander over Ballard Down to Old Harry Rocks on the coast of Dors...

Sound Escape 208. Enjoy the restful pulse of waves crashing on a Cornish beach

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a bright morning on the Falmouth seafront after a week of rain and wind. The air is still, the sunshine warm, yet the sea is still full of storm ...

285. A quest to find a mysterious ruined tower on a forgotten hill in the Bannau

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We climb a little-known hill in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) called Allt yr Esgair to search for a mysterious tower lost in the woods. Who ...

Sound Escape 207. Be mesmerised the sound of thawing snow

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After three days of snow and deep cold, a westerly weather front has swept in – a warm breath to thaw the frozen landscape. You stop outdoors among ...

284. How to train your dog to behave perfectly around livestock and wildlife

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Poorly trained dogs can be a menace to wildlife and livestock – and are a major issue in the UK countryside. This week, host Fergus is joined by fri...

Sound Escape 206. Experience a landscape transformed by snow

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's not quite a white Christmas but early in the New Year, the land is transformed by a thick layer of snow. You can't resist the joyful urge to be t...

283. What lives in the wilds of Lancashire's Forest of Bowland?

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Writer, angler and Plodcast regular Kevin Parr is your host this week, exploring the wild of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. Kev is on a quest f...

Sound Escape 205. A winter morning's walk through fields of frost

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Overnight, temperatures fell sharply and you awake to fields made ghostly pale by frost. You put on your boots and shake off the cold with a tramp thr...

282. Join the Plodcast team for a Big Garden Birdwatch

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch approaches (24-26 January 2025), the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis explore what birds are visitin...

Sound Escape 204. Sit beside a crackling wood fire in the depths of winter

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's bitterly cold outside but the fire is lit and crackling in the hearth. You sink into a favourite sofa and sip from a cup of hot chocolate – the...

281. A quest to explore the mysteries of fog, with author Laura Pashby

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Explore the murky world of fog and mist with Laura Pashby. Laura has devoted much of her adult life to experiencing how these strange weather phenomen...

Sound Escape 203. Listen to the tides wash over the Gower shore

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're on the south coast of Gower. You’re using a rocky outcrop as a perch to watch the tide come in. The scene is a wash of grey and the sunshine i...

280. A quest to find a Templar church lost in the Herefordshire countryside

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join a quest in the little-visited no-man's land between Monmouthshire and Herefordshire to seek out a mysterious church built by the Knights Templar ...

Sound Escape 202. Take a pause next to a farm in the heart of rural Wales

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a long roam across the vast mountains of the Bannau Brycheiniog, you stop to catch your breath. The timid chirps of starlings echo through farml...

279. Follow the Plodcast team as they climb a midwinter mountain to celebrate the New Year

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis – with special guest Kevin Parr, attempt to climb a mountain in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon B...

Sound Escape 201. Wander in a misty valley of ravens and sheep

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking up a shallow valley, smoky with mist, on the border between Wales and Herefordshire. Ravens and jackdaws rule the airwaves here while h...

278. Join the the Plodcast Christmas Special and team quiz!

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's Christmas Eve and the Plodcast team of Hannah, Jack and Lewis have gathered at host Fergus' cottage on a farm in the Monmouthshire countryside. T...

Sound Escape 200. Be enchanted by the song of a Christmas stream

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's nearly Christmas, and you've escaped the preparations and the bustle to find a moment's peace on a short walk to your local woodland. In a tangle...

277. Meet the women of the Wars of the Roses with novelist Annie Garthwaite

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The siege of Ludlow in Shropshire was one of the earliest skirmishes in the vicious 15th-century civil known as the Wars of the Roses. It was also hom...

Sound Escape 199. Listen to the soft patter of snowfall in a garden

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When snow falls, all other sounds recede. All you can hear is the soft pattering and gentle hiss of millions of snowflakes falling onto the track ahea...

276. Explore an innovative Welsh farm where nature thrives alongside the livestock

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meet brothers Ben and Ethan who farm sheep and beef on the edge of Cardiff in harmony with nature. Annabel Ross is your host this week, learning how t...

Sound Escape 198. A calming walk through fields of dewy grass

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a cold night, the sun rises brightly in a brilliant blue sky. You take advantage, walking across the nearby fields, wellies swishing through the...

275. What is the National Forest? Explore this magnificent project with historian Eleanor Barraclough

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we return to a summer Plodcast hosted and recorded by historian Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Here Eleanor visits the National Forest, a pr...

Sound Escape 197. Listen to the amusing chatter of starlings in a farmyard

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a foggy, gloomy day on the hill and you've strayed into a quiet farmyard - quiet that is except for the mutterings of starlings. The gang's dark ...

274. A walk in Roald Dahl country with environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus walks with campaigner Guy Shrubsole in the Chilterns' woodlands that inspired Roald Dahl's famous children's book: Danny Champion...

Sound Escape 196. Be soothed by the rush and fall of waves on a rocky coast in Wales

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the sun is setting over the Welsh coast, we’re sitting above a cleft in the cliffs. Rhythmically, the waves rush and recede in this open-roofed c...

273. Discover how Empire shaped the British countryside with historian Corinne Fowler

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Take a walk though the leafy suburbs of south Birmingham with historian Corinne Fowler. Corinne's studies of how the British Empire impacted rural Br...

Sound Escape 195. Hear the eerie bellows of red deer stags during the autumn rut

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a sound that seems more attuned to the uplands of the north and west: the deep haunting bellows of red deer. But we're on the edge of London, amo...

272. A wander in the Cambridgeshire Fens with ground-breaking broadcaster Catherine Carr

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Carr is a podcaster and creator of BBC Radio 4's famed 'About the boys' series on what it's like to be a teenage boy in 2024. Hear her insig...

Sound Escape 194. Enjoy the beguiling patterns of rainfall in a back garden

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forbidding sheets of rain and flooding mean that outdoor adventures must be postponed until tomorrow. But there's something cosy and deeply comforting...

271. A quest to go fishing on a lake where anglers are rarely allowed

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We've gone fishing! The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis plus angler-writer Kevin Parr are given a unique opportunity to spend a day fi...

Sound Escape 193. Sit beside a waterfall in a once-bustling landscape reclaimed by nature

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Walking in a wide vale of crumbling relics of a long-lost industrial age, you stumble across a small stream, caught in the act of tumbling over a wate...

270. Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn join the Plodcast to celebrate their new children's book

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nature writer Robert Macfarlane and singer-songwriter-actor Johnny Flynn take Plodcast host Fergus on a ramble along the River Lea in East London. Hav...

Sound Escape 192. Relax to wind in the willows

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's early afternoon after heavy rain and you've followed a small brook past waterlogged fields and a stand of willows. The trees' feet, submerged in ...

269. A wonderful walk and talk with Hamza Yassin

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wildlife cameraman and TV presenter Hamza Yassin joins Plodcast host Fergus on a walk through an urban oasis deep in the city of Manchester. Hamza tal...

Sound Escape 191. Sit for a while in a sunny valley of sheep and fungi

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're in a small, steep sided valley with a clear stream fizzing through it. Sheep graze among anthills, and while buzzards and crows call from the c...

268. Explore a haunted landscape of lost industry in Yorkshire with historian Eleanor Barraclough

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We welcome historian and BBC radio presenter Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough back to the Plodcast this week, with a walk through an ex-industrial landsca...

Sound Escape 190. Escape to a mountaintop among buzzards and ravens

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're climbing a small mountain in the Bannau Brycheiniog – and it's hot. So hot, you stop early for your picnic. High on the peak, ravens, buzzard...

267. Join a Big River Watch to help save our waterways

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus Collins enjoys an autumn walk by the River Avon near Bath with Emma Brisdion of the Rivers Trust to take part in a Big River Watc...

Sound Escape 189. Listen to life go by along a quiet country lane

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's late morning on a quiet autumn day and you're sitting on a welcome bench beside a small lane that winds between wooded pasture and a small estuar...

266. Take an early morning walk to explore a hillfort in the Bannau Brycheiniog

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Take a magical walk on the last day of summer to find a hillfort on the edge of the town of Brecon and the Bannau Brycheiniog. Plodcast host Fergus lo...

Sound Escape 188. Sitting by the banks of a canal

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're beside a canal, enjoying a few stolen hours fishing – but really it's an opportunity to relax alone beside the water after the busy summer. A...

265. Meet wildlife ranger and TV presenter Ajay Tegala

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we return to our visit to the Global Birdfair in Rutland. In the second Plodcast interview of the festival, Plodcast host Fergus met wildlif...

Sound Escape 187. Take a break next to a rushing Dartmoor stream

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, you're perched on a mossy bank, listening to a gentle stream pass through a Dartmoor forest. The water is crystal clear, revealing a microc...

264. Join the quest to return eagles to the skies of Wales

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will eagles return to Wales in the next couple of years? Sophie-Lee Williams of Eagle Reintroduction Wales is confident that mighty white-tailed eagle...

Sound Escape 186. Listen to the tide rising over a saltmarsh in Carmarthen Bay

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's early morning and we're alone beside the River Towy estuary just downstream from the ancient town of Carmarthen. The tide is rising in mini surge...

263. A journey through the Highlands of Scotland

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Head out on a Highland road trip with Plodcast regular Kevin Parr as he explores the wildlife of some of finest peaks and glens of Scotland. A marvell...

Sound Escape 185. Be bewitched by the whispering leaves of aspen trees

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Walking through a lakeside woodland, you become aware of a shimmering, ghostly whisper rising snd swirling around you. A light breeze is gentle bewitc...

262. Explore the strange music within ponds with Alice Boyd

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join folk singer and sound designer Alice Boyd in Epping Forest on the eastern edge of London as she explores the eerie, little-know soundscapes of po...

Sound Escape 184. Relax to the rhythms of waves on the mysterious shores of the Severn Estuary

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking along a seawall above a forgotten stretch of the Severn Estuary – a gentle tang of seaweed is a reminder that the open sea is not far...

261. Join the Plodcast team for a train ride out to a forgotten wilderness near Bristol

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis jump on a little train from central Bristol to explore a wilderness of mudflats, saltmarsh and wil...

Sound Escape 183. Delight in the last birdsong of the summer woodland

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s early evening as you follow a long path that disappears into the woods. The trees create a green tunnel high above you. A recent downpour has l...

260. We're on stage at the Global Birdfair with naturalist and geese fanatic Nick Acheson

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we look back at the amazing Global Birdfair in Rutland, which took place in July. Plodcast host Fergus was on stage to record some plodchat...

Sound Escape 182. Be mesmerised by the songs of yellowhammers

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a hot summer's day and you're heading from the open slopes of a small mountain to the welcome cool of woodland in the valley below. But before yo...

259. Find lost artefacts on the River Thames with mudlarker Lara Maiklem

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Plodcast host Fergus on the Thames foreshore with legendary mudlarker Lara Maiklem searching for historical artefacts and oddities among the sand...

Sound Escape 181. Take a moorland stroll among pipits and skylarks

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're striding out across a wider moorland ridge with bilberry, bracken and heather flanking the path. It's a rare calm day in the uplands a...

258. Spend the day in a summer meadow at glorious Wakehurst in Sussex

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're exploring the Royal Botanical Gardens of Wakehurst in Sussex exploring why meadows filled with grasses, herbs and flowers are so vital...

Sound Escape 180. Be calmed by gentle rain on summer leaves

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking an ancient tree-line lane up a hillside when a brief summer rain shower takes you by surprise. Sheltering under a kindly horse chestnut...

257. A quest for beauty - and yellowhammer song - on a midsummer mountain

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week the Plodcast heads into the uplands of the Bannau Brycheinog to explore the summer wildlife that abounds there. Plodcast host Fergus is hopi...

Sound Escape 179. Chill to a lazy symphony of birdsong in a lakeside woodland

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The anglers have departed, the dog-walkers have gone home. The lake is still. You are alone by a strip of woodland on the edge of the water, listening...

256. One man's quest to drive back the dark woods with music

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Head into the deep dark wood with composer and pianist Alexander Chapman Campbell to hear about his quest to raise awareness of the perils of conifer ...

Sound Escape 178. Relax in an overgrown churchyard on the mellowest of summer evenings

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's evening, just after midsummer's day, and a walk has taken you down a winding lane to a tiny medieval church. In the churchyard, lichen-crusted gr...

255. A quest to explore the magic of flight with Lev Parikian

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Plodcast heads to the dreamy surrounds of Richmond Park in south-west London to discuss the wonders of flights with author and conductor Lev Parik...

Sound Escape 177. Sunlight and birdsong stream through a summer woodland

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Morning has broken. A wood pigeon coos its lazy welcome to summer, surrounded by a chorus of chaffinches, blackbirds, wrens and chiffchaffs. The new g...

254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join an unusual Plodcast adventure in an urban car park with artist and author Anna Chapman Parker. Anna spent a year watching and drawing the wildflo...

Sound Escape 176. Enjoy perky parakeets on a walk in Richmond Park

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're walking across the open grassland of Richmond Park in south-west London. While jets grumble overhead, rose-ringed parakeets can't resi...

253. Who is the Orchid Outlaw? And what is he up to in the wilds of Britain?

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Take an adventure with the Orchid Outlaw – a man braving danger and risking his freedom to rescue Britain's endangered orchids. Plodcast host Fergu...

Sound Escape 175. Spend dusk among the beechwoods of Hampshire

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're walking in a summertime Narnia of dappled pathways, whispering leaves and the tall, smooth-skinned trunks of beech trees. This is the Blackwood ...

252. What can you find to eat on an urban foraging adventure in Bristol?

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Savour the joys of foraging – this time in an urban green haven in the middle of Bristol. Plodcast host Fergus joins foraging expert Andy Hamilton f...

Sound Escape 174. Spend midsummer beside a chuckling river teeming with life

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a hot midsummer day and sunlight sparkles along a stretch of gentle rapids on the River Usk. On the riverbank, floods have carved small cliffs en...

251. Should we cull some animals to save others - asks Hugh Warwick?

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Should some animals be killed in order to protect rarer species or precious habitats? Everything from hedgehogs and mink to crows and deers has been t...

Sound Escape 173. Enjoy the sultry song of a blackbird at dusk

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dusk is falling after a busy bank holiday and a welcome peace is settling over the neighbourhood. The flowering clematis and roses seem to breathe a s...

250. Hear migrant birds as they arrive in the UK at Portland Bill in Dorset - with one very special visitor

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Portland Bill in Dorset is famous as a first landing site for thousands of migrant birds as they arrive to breed in the UK this spring and summer. Joi...

Sound Escape 172. Let the waves of Luskentyre Beach wash all stress away

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're walking on the white sands of Luskentyre on the Isle of Harris. A gentle line of surf teases the beach. Above, a common tern bobs by on its stra...

249. Welsh language and landscape with Julie Brominicks

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enter Rivendell – or what might as well be – a hidden valley on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia) in North Wales. Plodcast host Fergus takes a nature ...

Sound Escape 171. Relax to the gorgeous melody of a willow warbler

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're on the edge of a settlement on the Isle of Harris - lochs and mountains flow from where the houses end. In the quiet of the morning, a willow wa...

248. A quest for eagles on the Isle of Harris

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Explore a landscape of craggy mountains, turquoise seas and deep blue lochs on the Isle of Harris in search of rare wildlife – and especially golden...

Sound Escape 170. A peaceful morning in the Devon countryside

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's bright early morning in East Devon, the ground is still damp from the rains during the night but the light brings an optimistic view of the day a...

247. Explore Heal, an ambitious new rewilding project in Somerset

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A new rewilding project has been announced in Somerset. Created by the charity Heal, the project aims to transform several hundred acres of farmland i...

Sound Escape 169. Relax to a song thrush singing by a beautiful stream

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a healing night in a cabin beside a stream, you awake to a cup of tea and a glorious serenade from a song thrush. Wild garlic sweeps along the b...

246. A quest for greater access to the countryside for people with disabilities

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus heads to deepest Herefordshire to meet Alice Sainsbury, who is championing greater access to the countryside for people with visi...

Sound Escape 168. A misty evening in a Lake District forest

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hidden under the canopy of a Cumbrian forest, you sit, listening to the creaking of branches and snapping of twigs. Tiny closed-cup mushrooms are scat...

245. A quest to find wild boar in the Forest of Dean with author Chantal Lyons

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's dusk in the Forest of Dean and Plodcast host Fergus is on the trail of wild boar with author Chantal Lyons. Chantal has been studying these extra...

Sound Escape 167. Relax to the dusk chorus of birdsong deep in the Forest of Dean

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're sitting on a tree stump in a vast clearing, deep in the Forest of Dean. It's dusk and the rapidly failing light takes the last humans with it, ...

244. Enter the Golden Triangle in search of magical wild daffodils

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enter the mysterious Golden Triangle on the borders of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to discover one of Britain's glorious spring wildlife spectac...

Sound Escape 166. Relax to a reading about nightingales from a new Countryfile book

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're relaxing to a delightful piece of writing about nightingales by Dominic Couzens accompanied by the birds themselves – and read by Fe...