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BBC Countryfile Magazine brings you The Plodcast - a weekly escape to the British countryside with fascinating guests and the wonders of the great outdoors.

Enjoy a new escape into the countryside every Tuesday and wind down with our Sound Escapes on a Friday.

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676 episodes
Updated Friday

Episodes676

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Apr 29, 2022 · 11 min
Sound Escape 62: sunrise in a riverside woodland – with a heron colony
Enjoy a dawn chorus with a difference – the curious conversations of herons
Apr 26, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
145. Celebrate the magic of early spring in a hidden valley in Wales
Season 12 Episode 1: the songs of Wild Britain – spring in the Brecon Beacons
Apr 22, 2022 · 11 min
Sound Escape 61: be delighted by birdsong in a Brecon Beacons' oakwood
Follow a winding path above a stream to hear an April chorus of birds
Apr 19, 2022 · 18 min
We preview Season 12: the wild sounds of Britain
The Plodcast team discuss forthcoming episodes
Apr 15, 2022 · 42 min
SE60: Enjoy an extended recording of the dawn chorus from a Wiltshire village
Relax to the most uplifting sounds of spring in the UK
Apr 12, 2022 · 1 hr
144. Creating natural flood defences in Dartmoor with the Environment Agency
Meet Emma Howard Boyd and Tom Dauben of the EA to talk leaky dams on Dartmoor
Apr 8, 2022 · 7 min
Sound Escape 59: the uplifting sounds of spring on the allotment
Enjoy the wholesome sounds of veg beds being prepared for the growing seasons
Apr 5, 2022 · 1 hr
143. Tales from the riverbank part 2: we meet perch and talk pike and adders
Angling skills and wild wisdom from Kevin Parr on the Somerset Levels
Apr 1, 2022 · 10 min
Sound Escape 58: the soothing lullaby of raindrops falling on a pond
Welcome rain in the garden after a long dry spring
Mar 29, 2022 · 1 hr
142. Tales from the riverbank part 1: a relaxing day's angling in Somerset
Fishing, wildlife watching and idle chat with angler and writer Kevin Parr
Mar 25, 2022 · 13 min
Sound Escape 57: relax to spring birdsong by a woodland pool deep in the New Forest
Marsh tits, stock doves and robins take centre stage – while a New Forest pony investigates
Mar 22, 2022 · 51 min
141. Rewilding could transform the countryside for wildlife and people, says Rebecca Wrigley
A walk at RSPB Otmoor in Oxfordshire to explore the issues of rewilding
Mar 18, 2022 · 10 min
Sound Escape 56: relax to the sounds of waves on a hidden cove on Shetland
Enjoy early spring on a remote shoreline in the far north
Mar 15, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
140. Meet Alix Chiddley-Uttley on her magical family farm at lambing time
A morning among newborn lambs in the Shropshire Hills
Mar 11, 2022 · 9 min
Sound Escape 55: soothing woodland birdsong and the chanting of herons
Be charmed by a spring riverside walk on the edge of Bristol
Mar 8, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
139. The magic of eBiking through the Forest of Dean
Wildlife watching and mountain biking with Tom Marvin from BikeRadar
Mar 4, 2022 · 12 min
Sound Escape 54: the soothing conversations of a flock of house sparrows
Enjoy the common sounds from a typical town garden
Mar 1, 2022 · 59 min
138. How the people of Langholm took control of their local countryside
The extraordinary story of a community buy-out of its surrounding landscape
Feb 25, 2022 · 7 min
Sound Escape 53: the soft trilling of greenfinches on the edge of an overgrown farm
Learn the song of a once-common finch and enjoy an early sound of spring
Feb 22, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
137. Wild moors and wild moods: how walking in nature can inspire stunning art
How the Pennine Moors and valleys influence artists Liz Ackerley and Hugh Winterbottom