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 22, 2021 · 24 min
Fisherwomen
The voices of the women who mend the nets and gut the fish.
Feb 4, 2021 · 24 min
Twelve months of Open Country
Helen Mark looks at some of the highlights from the last twelve months of Open Country.
Jan 28, 2021 · 24 min
Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast
Helen Mark talks to the writer Julia Blackburn about her love of the Suffolk coastline.
Jan 21, 2021 · 25 min
Windows
Helen Mark rethinks her relationship with windows and how they connect us to the world.
Jan 14, 2021 · 25 min
Snowdrop Country
Alan Street has spent his life discovering snowdrops - but now there is new demand.
Jan 8, 2021 · 24 min
Brett Westwood and Wyre Forest
Brett Westwood and Rosemary Winnall are in Wyre Forest in search of wild service trees.
Dec 31, 2020 · 49 min
Winter at Binevenagh
Helen Mark immerses us in her local landscape surrounding Binevenagh in Northern Ireland.
Dec 26, 2020 · 24 min
Frank Turner and the Meon Valley
Frank Turner returns to the area in which he spent his early life, the Meon Valley.
Dec 17, 2020 · 24 min
The Lighthouse on the Headland of the Great Seas
How the local community is preserving the history of Scotland's Ardnamurchan Lighthouse.
Dec 10, 2020 · 24 min
Kitty Macfarlane and the Somerset Levels
Singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane explores how the Somerset levels inspires her music.
Dec 3, 2020 · 48 min
Rediscovering Redesdale
How the community in Redesdale, Northumberland, is restoring and celebrating its landscape
Nov 26, 2020 · 24 min
Eilean Shona
Eilean Shona, once a Highland crofting island, now a nature reserve and holiday retreat
Nov 19, 2020 · 24 min
New Land Owners, New Visions
Caz Graham meets the people behind two historic land buyouts in the south of Scotland.
Nov 12, 2020 · 24 min
The Sea
A cross-channel swimmer, a bird watcher, and an environmental artist reflect on the sea.
Nov 5, 2020 · 24 min
Gilbert White’s Selborne
A tour of Gilbert White’s Selborne 300 years after this pioneering naturalist was born.
Oct 29, 2020 · 24 min
The Bord Waalk of Amble
Landscape and wildlife have inspired a Bird Sculpture trail called Bord Waalk in Amble.
Oct 22, 2020 · 24 min
Ghost Ponds and Underwater Songs
In Norfolk, ghost ponds are being recovered, restored and heard to sing once again.
Sep 3, 2020 · 24 min
Cleeve Common
Sybil Ruscoe visits Cleeve Common, the highest point of the Cotswold Hills.
Aug 27, 2020 · 24 min
Brett Westwood's Summer Nature Diary
Brett Westwood shares his audio-diary of the natural world in summer.
Aug 20, 2020 · 24 min
Pete Waterman at Braunston Marina
Songwriter and music producer, Pete Waterman, revisits his childhood holidays