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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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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
Feb 18, 2022 · 12 min
Sound Escape 52: Make yourself comfortable and cosy beside an open fire
Relax to the gentle crackle and hiss of a traditional wood fire
Feb 15, 2022 · 39 min
136. A beautiful and relaxing walk on the Isle of Seil with poet Kenneth Steven
Wildlife and poetry from the Western Isles
Feb 11, 2022 · 9 min
Sound Escape 51: Relax to the soft chatter of starlings on a Wiltshire dairy farm
A wintry walk through a farmyard filled with birds
Feb 8, 2022 · 59 min
135. Getting lost among hillforts and ravens on a winter's walk in Monmouthshire
Missing footpaths and blocked stiles create more adventure than we planned for
Feb 4, 2022 · 9 min
Sound Escape 50: a gentle walk along the Kennet and Avon Canal in Wiltshire
Relax to the stirrings of spring beside a loch
Feb 1, 2022 · 53 min
134. Enjoy a walk with the boss of the Countryfile TV show: Jane Lomas
Go behind the scenes of Britain's most popular rural tv show
Jan 28, 2022 · 9 min
Sound Escape 49: soothing waves crashing on an empty beach in Devon
Be soothed by the gentle sounds of the sea
Jan 25, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
133. Explore the greatest music inspired by the British countryside – while wandering in the Cotswold Hills
A magical Cotswold walk with BBC Music's Jeremy Pound
Jan 21, 2022 · 9 min
Sound Escape 48: be transported to a lowland farm where ravens kronk and cattle low
Enjoy a soothing escape to the January countryside
Jan 18, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
132. The wonderful song of the winter marshes with naturalist Ben Hoare
Enjoy the first episode of our new series: Voices of the Countryside
Jan 14, 2022 · 10 min
Sound Escape 47: enjoy the first birdsong of the year on a frosty green lane
A muddy walk on a sunny January day – with birds foraging all around
Jan 11, 2022 · 21 min
Voices of the Countryside – we preview our new season of Plodcasts
What's coming up in season 11 of the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast
Jan 7, 2022 · 7 min
Sound Escape 46: listen as a song thrush sings in the new year
Relax to the first stirrings of birdsong in 2022
Dec 31, 2021 · 11 min
Sound Escape 45: the soothing calls of roosting lapwings on a coastal lagoon in Somerset
Relax to the beautiful sounds of winter waders on wild marshland
Dec 28, 2021 · 47 min
131. Plodcast plans for 2022 – and festive games – in the Christmas party
Enjoy a chat with the team in our last episode of 2021
Dec 24, 2021 · 16 min
Sound Escape 44: the delightful song of a robin at dawn on Christmas Eve
Enjoy a beautiful and festive dawn chorus
Dec 21, 2021 · 43 min
130. It's the Plodcast Christmas special! Join the team to celebrate a year exploring the UK countryside
It's the Plodcast Christmas special!
Dec 17, 2021 · 11 min
Sound Escape 43: unwind to the song of silver birch trees
You've clambered down from a Peak District ridge to take shelter in a silver birch woodland. The wind, the tail end of Storm Arwen, whooshes through the stark winter canopy - a deeply calming rise and fall of sound. BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Esc...
Dec 14, 2021 · 51 min
129. PLODCAST SPECIAL: talking Lost Words and Spell Songs with the great Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane is one of the foremost British nature writers. His recent collaboration with Jackie Morris, The Lost Words, was a celebration of nature words and has since inspired two albums of music: The Lost Spells. In this podcast, Annabel Ross m...