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Open Country

BBC Radio 4

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

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  • 462 episodes
  • Updated May 14

Episodes462

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  • Apr 30, 2011 · 24 min

    Mingulay

    Helen Mark visits Barra in the Outer Hebrides to hear about island life past and future.

  • Apr 23, 2011 · 24 min

    Herefordshire film

    Richard Uridge visits Herefordshire's rural film festival.

  • Apr 9, 2011 · 24 min

    Sherwood Forest

    Richard Uridge finds out that there's more to Sherwood Forest than Robin Hood.

  • Apr 2, 2011 · 24 min

    Durham Heritage Coast

    Helen Mark visits the transformed landscape of the Durham Heritage Coast.

  • Mar 26, 2011 · 24 min

    Edgelands

    Richard Uridge explores the Edgelands around Manchester.

  • Mar 19, 2011 · 24 min

    Death on the Moors

    Is the iconic Dartmoor pony under threat? Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to find out.

  • Jan 29, 2011 · 24 min

    Weather in Wiltshire

    Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about a very British obsession.

  • Jan 22, 2011 · 24 min

    Portbury Wharf

    Helen Mark meets Bristol city dwellers developing a nature reserve on their doorstep.

  • Jan 15, 2011 · 25 min

    Yurts

    Meet those who are braving the winter to live like nomads in their yurt high up on Exmoor.

  • Jan 8, 2011 · 25 min

    High Speed Rail

    The proposals for high speed rail in Buckinghamshire that are provoking protest campaigns.

  • Jan 1, 2011 · 24 min

    River Thames

    Helen Mark discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames.

  • Dec 25, 2010 · 24 min

    Mistletoe

    Owen Sheers visits the annual Mistletoe Festival at Tenbury Wells.

  • Dec 18, 2010 · 24 min

    18/12/2010

    Helen Mark is in Dorset to find out how marine life can impact on the local community.

  • Dec 11, 2010 · 24 min

    Wildlife Crime

    Richard Uridge is on the trail of wildlife poachers in Cumbria.

  • Dec 4, 2010 · 24 min

    Lighthouse

    We explore how the UK's only independently-run lighthouse, in Happisburgh, has survived.

  • Nov 27, 2010 · 24 min

    Ardtornish

    Helen Mark visits Ardtornish estate in Morvern, in the western Highlands of Scotland.

  • Nov 20, 2010 · 24 min

    New Forest Mushrooms

    Richard Uridge goes foraging for fungi in the New Forest.

  • Nov 13, 2010 · 24 min

    Ayrshire

    Helen Mark hears how a forest of ten million conifers changed Ayrshire's Whitelee Plateau.

  • Nov 6, 2010 · 24 min

    Resistance

    Owen Sheers explores Wales' secret military history from World War II.