The Plodcast

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...

243. Embark on a pilgrimage to the River Thames with wild wanderer Phoebe Smith

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Plodcast host Fergus and adventurer Phoebe Smith as they take a day-long pilgrimage across the Oxfordshire countryside to explore spring nature -...

Sound Escape 165. A peaceful meditation among the geese at an ancient Welsh lake

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're wandering beside a lake in early spring sunlight. A newly arrived chiffchaff sings from nearby willows while the plaintive calls from a scatter...

242. A quest to find spring wildlife on Sugar Loaf mountain

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Step out into spring with Plodcast host Fergus for a wander on his local hill to find who's up and about in the wildlife world on this early spring mo...

Sound Escape 164. Take a mindful moment beside a rushing stream

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're beside a stream at the bottom of a wooded valley. You're nearing the end of a long walk so you pause to rest. But soon the rushing water whispe...

241. Welcome to spring on the Plodcast - and hear our new theme tune created by Blair Dunlop

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to spring on the Plodcast and a new season of nature-themed episodes! But first, we have an exciting development! Musician Blair Dunlop and so...

Sound Escape 163. Eerie soundscapes from inside a Roman amphitheatre

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're on the edge of a the ruins of a Roman town lost in the Hampshire countryside. Only the crumbling outer walls remain, enclosing daffodil-fringed...

240. In search of the water wolf - the mighty pike - with TV presenter Will Millard

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're spending the day on a waterway in Gloucestershire in search of a creature that has spawned a thousand myths and monster stories – we...

Sound Escape 162. Relax to an amazing chorus of toads recorded underwater

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're beside a small pond where toads are thronging the margins, jostling and tootling as they prepare to spawn. Through the magic of a hydrophone, y...

239. Exploring Roman Silchester and discovering folk music with broadcasting legend Matthew Bannister

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're off to the Roman town of Silchester deep in the Hampshire countryside. Plodcast host Fergus meets legendary broadcaster Matthew Bannis...

Sound Escape 161. The satisfying crunch of footsteps on fresh snow

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're in the Bannau Brycheiniog – and an overnight snowfall has dusted the hilltops. It's melting fast so we've headed to the nearest peak for a sat...

238. A special night walk in Epping Forest to bring communities together

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're off to Epping Forest on the eastern edge of London on a night walk to hear from those who encounter barriers to accessing nature and t...

Sound Escape 160. A gentle morning's chorus of birds in a leafy suburb

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Saturday in a suburb of gardens full of daffodils and crocuses - and the birds are awake long before the human population. House sparrows chatter in t...

237. Join the Plodcast team for a chat about rural issues and the best Plodcast listener recordings from the wild

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join the Plodcast team of Fergus, Maria and Jack in the studio to chat about their latest wild adventures and discuss country matters and rural issues...

Sound Escape 159. Gorgeous woodland birdsong heralds the oncoming spring

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We've stopped in a forgotten, overgrown green lane on a hillside. A bright sun sears deep into the woodland. Winter's blanket is being unstitched by t...

236. On the trail of a water dragon known as the 'Sussex Knucker'

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're off to Sussex in the great company of Plodcast regular Maria Hodson. Maria heads to the town of Lyminster to hunt for a terrifying cre...

Sound Escape 158. The haunting cries of seals on a Norfolk beach

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re at Horsey Gap, a long and sandy beach in Norfolk. Over the roar of the North Sea, we can hear the moans and growls of a nearby colon...

235. A riverside walk with Wild Woman Philippa Forrester

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoy a walk and talk with documentary maker, writer and TV presenter Philippa Forrester. While exploring a flooded landscape between Bath and Bristo...

Sound Escape 157. The delicious patter of rain as you shelter inside

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're stuck in the greenhouse. We came up to check on the winter salad leaves, and the skies darkened. It’ll only be a short shower, the e...

234. Explore a desolate graveyard of ships on the River Severn

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Between the villages of Purton and Sharpness on the River Severn, dozens of barges and ships lie on the riverbank, slowly decomposing into the landsca...

Sound Escape 156. Melodies of a Welsh stream flowing under ice

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in the Cambrian Mountains, just outside Wales' remotest chapel, a small stream flows out of the barren hills. Now, in the depths of winter, a ski...

233. Uncovering mysteries in the Buckinghamshire village of Brill

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Plodcast host Fergus and countryside writer Professor Fiona Stafford in the curious hilltop village of Brill to learn how to find hidden history ...

Sound Escape 155. Enjoy the music of melting icicles in the entrance to a cave

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking an old tram road in an abandoned quarry in the Welsh hills. It's been deadly cold for weeks and water that normally cascades off the hi...

232. Exploring a haunted ruined chapel lost in a Dorset woodland

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Plodcast regular Kevin Parr explores a lost church in Dorset. St Luke's Chapel was built to serve the village of Sterte near Abbotsbury, in...

Sound Escape 154. Frosty footsteps on a bright and sunny midwinter morning

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's an icy cold morning and you're walking through a once-waterlogged meadow now made crisp by frost. Low winter sun slants across the surrounding hi...

231. A tale of bloody massacre in the peaceful Monmouthshire countryside

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hidden in a peaceful corner of the Monmouthshire countryside is a site steeped in blood, treachery and revenge. Plodcast host Fergus and his son Owen ...

Sound Escape 153. Bathe in stunning spring skylark song - all the way from New Zealand

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You are on high country farm road in the Hakataramea Valley in deepest South Canterbury, New Zealand. Skylark song pours from the heavens, cascading o...

230. Enjoy a day's beachcombing on Orkney and learn local tales of the sea

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're beachcombing on Orkney this week. Plodcast regular Annabel Ross meets Martin Gray who has been finding curiosities on the seashore here for seve...

Sound Escape 152. Listen to the eerie calls of cranes on the Somerset Levels

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking a muddy track beside a farm on the edge of a vast expanse of flooded land, the water perfectly reflecting a rare January blue sky. From...

229. A gentle day's fishing with Will Millard and Kevin Parr on the Mon-Brec Canal

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Plodcast goes fishing this week with plodcast regular Kevin Parr and author and TV presenter Will Millard. Host Fergus meets them on his local wat...

Sound Escape 151. Walk beside a wild river tumbling from the hills

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You're walking beside a stream swollen by rain, which tumbles through a wooded valley, crashing over rocks and weirs. Dippers chatter and dive for foo...

228: Walk in the footsteps of soldiers in bloody combat on a Civil War battlefield near Bath

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus joins historian and battlefield tour guide Julian Humphrys at the site of a Civil War battlefield in the hills just north of Bath...

Sound Escape 150: Be uplifted by a chorus of New Year's robins

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After weeks of rain, it's a clear, calm rosy sunrise. A pair of robins in neighbouring gardens welcome the early sun with wistful phrases as if chatti...

227: Tales of birding in wild places with naturalist and author Stephen Moss

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus joins broadcaster, writer and, best of all, brilliant birder Stephen Moss on a wild stretch of the Somerset coast to look for win...

Sound Escape 149: Be soothed by the rhythms of the sea rising and falling in a remote Welsh cove

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're on the Ceredigion coast - a lonely cove of shingle with the Irish sea rolling with a soothing rhythm. No one else is around, no one th...

226: Brace yourself for a wild nighttime swim under a full moon in the depths of winter

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is it like to swim outdoors under a full moon in the depths of winter? Maria Hodson braves the inky waters of Clevedon Marine Pool with the Brist...

Sound Escape 148: A morning of gulls and rooks on the Somerset Coast

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where the Somerset Levels meet the sea, broad, marshy pastures and forgotten fields host gulls, rooks, crows and egrets, foraging for food stirred up ...

225: It's the Plodcast Christmas special - join the team for the Christmas quiz and other seasonal silliness

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Plodcast host Fergus and regulars Kevin Parr and Annabel Ross as well as editor Dan Kramer-Arden for a lighthearted look back at a year of record...

Sound Escape 147: Be calmed by the autumn song of a Welsh mountain river

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You're in a wintry valley following a boisterous stream high into the Welsh hills. After recent rain, the water boils and churns and the river's song ...

224. A quest to see salmon leaping in a Welsh mountain stream

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Come with us deep into the Welsh hills, to Gilfach Farm, a magical Radnorshire Wildlife Trust reserve in Powys. Here, in the tumbling River Marteg, sa...

Sound Escape 146: Revel in the crackle and murmur of an autumn night's party beside a bonfire

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a chilly evening and you are gathered with a crowd of others next to a large bonfire. The warmth it provides is a welcome break from the chilly...

223: Hear the mysterious tales of Orkney's might stone circle: The Ring of Brodgar

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Explore the magic and myth of the Ring of Brodgar – an astonishing neolithic stone circle on Orkney in the company of local ranger Sandra Miller and...

Sound Escape 145: Let sea and birdsong transport you to a wild corner of Orkney

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You're on the wild and windy beach of Orkney’s South Ronaldsay. You listen to the cry of turnstones, plovers, sanderlings and redshanks, competing f...

222: Follow in the footsteps of St Patrick on the stunning coast of County Down

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Plodcast host Fergus and wonderful storyteller Duane Fitzsimons as they following in the footsteps of St Patrick along the coastline of Co Down. ...

Sound Escape 144: Relax to the crackle of falling beechnuts in an autumn woodland

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the fluttering of pigeons' wings loosen the last beech nuts of the season, you stand under a gentle shower of nature’s crackles and pops, remindi...

221: Experience a night walk in an ancient woodland in a forgotten corner of Gloucestershire

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Enjoy a night walk in an ancient forest in Gloucestershire with the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah and Jack. What is it like walking in the pitch bla...

Sound Escape 143: Be soothed by waves on pebbles in a small Scottish harbour

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where the Burn of Latheronwheel meets the North Sea, you sit silently on the ancient harbour wall soaking in autumn sun, The waves draw the pebbles ba...

220: Tales of ancient fossils and fossil hunters in Dorset

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Plodcast tales are as ancient as can be. We’re in Dorset with Plodcast regular Annabel Ross hunting 500-million-year old fossils in t...

Sound Escape 142: Listening to a storm outside while sitting indoors by the fire

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in a little cottage deep in the Dorset countryside. The fire is lit. Steam swirls from a mug of tea. The curtains are drawn and we wait. Outsi...

219: Meet Mark Beech – the new series editor of the Countryfile TV programme

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the new boss of Countryfile and learn about what he has planned for the UK’s most popular countryside TV show. Plodcast regular Annabel Ross ta...

Sound Escape 141: Pause beside a roaring and refreshing mountain stream

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're following a narrow mountain path through thickets of inpenetrable birch. It's been a long, hot, footsore day and so you are easily seduced by th...

218: Spend an evening in the company of a deer stalker in southern England

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s dusk in a valley somewhere in Dorset. Plodcast regular Kevin Parr has joined a local deer stalker to talk about why – and how – he culls th...

Sound Escape 140: The dreamy sound of the autumn meadow

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're resting on a field gate. Late summer warmth spills into the autumn. The sun slow to rise but blazing when it does. The overnight dew clings on i...

217: Hear the mysterious and magical songs of trees – with musician Tiny Leaves

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our latest quest seeking tales from the British landscape, musician Tiny Leaves takes Plodcast host Annabel Ross onto a mysterious hill in Shropshi...

Sound Escape 139: Relax to the patterning of rain on autumn leaves

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re on a small, wooded hill in Herefordshire. Sullen clouds gather over the trees, which cloak the brooding ramparts of an ancient hillfort. It’...

216: Dark tales from a hillfort in deepest Herefordshire

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Come with us to a mighty hillfort, all but forgotten on a wooded hill deep in the Herefordshire countryside – and discover tales of dark deeds long ...

Sound Escape 138: Take a wander around a bustling harbourside

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s early autumn and the sunshine has brought bustle to a small harbour on the south coast. There is a light breeze and the air is soft. Families ...

215: Into the Deep Dark Wood with children's author Julia Donaldson

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Wander through a Sussex woodland with Julia Donaldson for a joyous mix of story-telling, mushroom foraging and Gruffalo-reenactment! Relive Julia’s ...

Sound Escape 137: Enter a trance-like state to the song of a cicada in a French garden

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in the garden in a small village in Picardy in Northern France. The early evening warmth teases sweet scent from the lavender bushes and myrtl...

214: A quest to find a mysterious standing stone in a Welsh desert

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to a new season of Plodcasts, a new series of quests to explore overlooked corners of countryside where folklore and mystery create curious ta...

Sound Escape 136: The delicious sound of rain on a porch while you shelter inside

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What weather! At times like this you forget it can rain so hard; the clouds overturned and emptied like water buckets on the ground before you. You fi...

213: Join the Plodcast team as they look forward to a new season of adventures in the wild countryside

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the end of summer and the end of a season of Plodcasts. Join the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah and Jack in the studio for a look forward to w...

Sound escape 135: A lazy stroll along a beach of shingle in the sunshine

22 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A late summer stroll through the shingle and sand of the south coast. There is warm sunshine between the cloud and a busy beach with families making t...

212: A charity hike through the Wye Valley – on the hottest day of the year

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Walk in the company of Jack and Fergus and they tackle Macmillan's Mighty Hike, a half marathon through the Wye Valley. Joining thousands of others, t...

Sound Escape 134: Pure clear water tumbles over a waterfall in a Irish fairy glen

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve wandered into a fairy glen where pure clear water tumbles from pool to pool though mini-gorges of moss covered rocks. As your eyes adjust, yo...

211: War, peace and woodpeckers in France's Ardennes forests

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Talk a wander through a forest in the Ardennes region of north-east France with Plodcast host Fergus – and discover unfamiliar woodland sights and s...

Sound Escape 133: A heady summer's afternoon serenaded by goldfinches

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your path down through the meadow’s edge is transformed in late summer as thistles, comfrey and Himalayan balsam swallow up the human-made track. Yo...

210: Walking St Patrick's Way 4: Biking in Tollymore Forest

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s as close to a fairy glen you’ll ever experience. Plodcast host Fergus sets off into Tollymore Forest in County Down with local guide Vikki Ca...

Sound Escape 132: A cool woodland walk beside a racing river

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Your cool, shady walk through a riverside woodland is pierced briefly by a kingfisher's wheezed whistle. The water roars as you approach rapids, then ...

209: A quest to experience the autumn migration of birds on Cromarty Firth in Scotland

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Be transported to the tranquil shores of the Cromarty Firth on the east coast of Scotland. Here, thousands of waders and wildfowl gather as autumn app...

Sound Escape 131: Bask in the afternoon sun beside the sea

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a sunny afternoon of exploring the rock pools you take a seat and listen to the waves crash gently against the rocky shorefront. Down the beach ...

208: Walking St Patrick's Way 3: a quest to climb the Mourne Mountains

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Enter the wild worlds of Narnia and Game of Thrones as Plodcast host Fergus and local outdoorsman John Keating seek out the great Mourne Wall deep in ...

Sound Escape 130: Start the day in a wild woodland

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's early morning and as the sun breaks through the canopy of leaves and the wrens, blue tits, robins begin their cheerful chatter. A new day is comi...

207: Conversations between a poet and his birds – on the Isle of Seil

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Island poet Kenneth Steven reveals the wildlife marvels on his doorstep – the Isle of Seal in the Inner Hebrides – and introduces us to a range o...

Sound Escape 129: Paddle your way gently down the River Wye

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're paddleboarding on the River Wye, Leave all your worries on the riverbank and be lulled by the gentle, rhythmic swish of the paddle bla...

206: Walking St Patrick's Way Part 2: The wildlife of the Newry Canal

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of our exploration of the St Patrick's Way pilgrimage in Northern Ireland, Plodcast host Fergus Collins and guide Peter Rafferty wa...

Sound Escape 128: Wild winds and calm waters in the Highlands

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're in Beinn Eighe (Ben Ay) in the Scottish Highlands The mountains this morning are ill-manner; the trails rough, the gullies deep, the mist consum...

205. A quest for one of Britain's rarest birds in the Cairngorm mountains

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’ve invited a former Plodcast guest to take the reins. Back in episode 199, I met James MacDonald Lockhart to hear the songs of skylarks...

Sound Escape 127: The delicious patter of rain on a tent – on the Pembrokeshire coast

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s night in a tent on the coast of Pembrokeshire. At some point during the dark hours, you stir. The rain is still falling, and there are layers t...

204: Adventure into the Welsh hills on an electric bike

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re heading back to early spring in the Welsh hills. But for the second Plodcast in a row, we’re not on foot. Following last week’s ...

Sound Escape 126: Relax beside a magical woodland stream on the edge of Cardiff

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Huddled between the urban brawn of Cardiff, Caerphilly and Newport is small woodland of spruce and birds and dank gullies. There is a stream in this w...

203: Drift gently down the River Wye on a paddleboard

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re out on the water – a two-day paddleboarding adventure on the Wye the great river that flows through the borders of England and Wal...

Sound Escape 125: Relax to birdsong in a woodland glade on the Isle of Wight coast

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a sunny evening in a wooded glade on quiet stretch of the Isle of Wight's northern shore. Just beyond the trees, the sea bustles. But here, jol...

202: Listen to the poetry of moss in a Dartmoor rainforest with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Annabel Ross ventures forth to the tangled rainforest of Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor to meet poet Elizabeth Jane Burnett.But their mission ...

Sound Escape 124: A mindful few minutes beside a rockpool in Wester Ross

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You spot a shelf of rock at the far end of the moon-shaped bay and make for it, the fine sand giving way to warm, angular, salt-rough ground. The scra...

201. Finding music in nature with composer Erland Cooper

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Annabel Ross is on a musical mission, discovering how nature and wild sounds can influence a modern composer – in this case, acclaimed...

Sound Escape 123: Soothing waves on shingle – on the Isle of Wight

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's a still summer's evening on a beach on the Isle of Wight. It’s still very warm and the heat seems to affect the sea itself. Wavelets sweep lazi...

200. Episode 200 Special: A quest for kingfishers in the heart of Bristol

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah and Jack explore the River Frome in search of kingfishers, which some of the team have never seen. Along the way, ...

Sound Escape 122: Chris Yates reads from the Secret Carp

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're heading deep into the Sussex countryside in the company of writer and angler Chris Yates. In this, the first chapter from his book The...

199. A quest for skylark song in the Cotswold Hills with James MacDonald Lockhart

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re going back to early spring and a trip to the north Cotswolds in Warwickshire to meet James Macdonald Lockhart who has written a book...

Sound Escape 121: A dreamy dawn chorus in a remote Scottish valley

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re near Loch Maree in western Scotland. You’re not sure what woke you first, the light or the birds. Either way, you stir peacefully in your b...

198. A wander in a bird of prey sanctuary with Megan McCubbin

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re meeting naturalist Megan McCubbin who listeners will know from co-hosting TV shows such as Springwatch alongside her step-father Chr...

Sound Escape 120: Soothing waves rising and falling on a beach in Wester Ross

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're in Wester Ross in the Highlands. The drive to road’s end is long and leisurely, the statuesque mountains and island-scattered lochs of Wester ...

197. Why rewilding can save Britain's wildlife – an interview with Isabella Tree at Knepp Wildlands

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus meets Isabella Tree, who with her husband Charlie Burrell, transformed a loss-making dairy farm at Knepp in Sussex into one of th...

Sound Escape 119: An astonishing nightingale duet in a Dorset woodland

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re tucked deep in the folds of the north Dorset countryside. As the light fades the dusk chorus rises. In a dense thicket of thorn, a single nigh...

196. A quest for nightingales at Knepp Wildlands in Sussex

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Plodcast host Fergus camps overnight at the most famous rewilding estate in Britain in the hope of finally hearing nightingales on the Plodcast. But...

Sound Escape 118: Relax to spring birdsong in a Dorset garden

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's late morning in a springtime Dorset garden. The morning was cool and rainy, but as the wind blows in the trees and mist clears; you look out over...

195. A quest for peace with Charlotte Church in deepest Wales

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Head with us to deepest Powys in mid Wales to The Dreaming. This wonderful house and surrounding landscape has been opened up as a place of retreat by...

Sound Escape 117: Celebrate the stunning dawn chorus at Knepp Wildlands

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's early and you're sitting outside a small tent deep the Knepp Wildlands of Sussex. A pre-dawn glow smudges the eastern sky. Elsewhere it is resolu...

194. A quest to find St Patrick in Northern Ireland

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re in Armagh in Northern Ireland, following in the footsteps of St Patrick. The patron saint of Ireland lived in the 5th century and his incredib...