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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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Jul 13, 2021 · 53 min
110 . Rewilding in the Black Mountains with woodsman Rob Penn
Hear how a massive tree-planting project will transform the Black Mountains peak of Bryn Arw in the Brecon Beacons. Woodsman and writer Rob Penn explains how the Stump Up For Trees project has convinced local farmers and landowners to embrace nature an...
Jul 9, 2021 · 28 min
109. A Yorkshire River Journey with Radio 3's Petroc Trelawny
Presenter of "Breakfast" on BBC Radio 3 Petroc Trelawny talks about his week of live shows following a Yorkshire river from source to sea. Petroc reveals how the show will blend the evocative sounds of nature with chosen pieces of classical m...
Jul 6, 2021 · 46 min
108. Take a boat adventure onto a beautiful loch in wild and rugged Assynt, Scotland
In the last of the current series, we head to the far north of Scotland to explore a remote loch and its wildlife – plus we attempt to fly-fish for brown trout in the beautiful waters while serenaded by cuckoos and buzzards.
Jul 2, 2021 · 8 min
Sound Escape 20: the mesmerising churring of a nightjar on a summer's night
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine: your chance to relax to the seasons sounds of nature wherever you are – and however busy your day. In this episode, it's a warm June evening on a hill in the Brecon Beacons and the strange ch...
Jun 29, 2021 · 59 min
107. Searching for a very rare butterfly in Rockingham Forest
Extinct in England, the chequered skipper has been reintroduced to a secret site in Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire by the Back from the Brink project The plodcast's Megan Shersby tells this heartening story and explores the forest in the ho...
Jun 25, 2021 · 10 min
Sound Escape 19: The hum of busy bumble bees
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine – your chance to relax to soundtracks of glorious nature wherever you are and whatever you are doing. In this episode, take a break in the shade at the bottom of the garden.
Jun 22, 2021 · 42 min
106. Meet the wildlife of a beautiful, unspoilt stream in a Peak District valley
Take a springtime wander up a Peak District valley called William Clough in the company of angler and naturalist Andrew Griffiths. Meet some of the aquatic residents as Andrew tries his hand at stream dipping and hear tales of battles over access on ne...
Jun 18, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 18: the beguiling songs of warblers from a reedbed by a lake in the Brecon Beacons
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine – your chance to relax to soundtracks of glorious nature wherever you are and whatever you are doing. In this episode, we're beside a sleepy lake deep in the Brecon Beacons. Wind rust...
Jun 14, 2021 · 57 min
105. Discover the mysterious lives of cuckoos in a Cambridgeshire fen
In this episode, Megan Shersby heads to the East of England to one of Britain's oldest nature reserves, the wetland wonder of Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. Here she meets Professor Nick Davies of Cambridge University, an expert on the lives of cuc...
Jun 11, 2021 · 10 min
Sound Escape 17: Be transported to a wooded Welsh valley to hear redstarts and song thrushes
Welcome to Sound Escapes, your chance to relax to the sounds of the British countryside no matter busy you are. In this episode, enjoy the song of one of our migrant birds, the redstart, plus backing singing from chiffchaffs, blackcaps, song thrushes a...
Jun 8, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min
104. Explore the Dorset heaths in search of Britain's rarest reptile
Meet the spring wildlife of one of Britain's rarest habitats – lowland heaths. Roam the heath-clad landscape in search of rare reptiles including the elusive smooth snake in the company of Owain Masters and Nick Dobbs from the Amphibian and Reptil...
Jun 4, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 16: listen to the cascade of wood warbler song in an ancient oak wood
Welcome to Sound Escapes, your chance to relax to the sounds of the British countryside no matter busy you are. In this episode, you're on a path rising up a steep-sided wooded valley in South Wales. The endless May rain has stopped and a male woo...
Jun 1, 2021 · 50 min
103. A joyful spring chorus of birdsong in a West Country oak woodland
Somerset artist Lucy Pendrick gets up early to listen to the whole of the dawn chorus of resident and migrant birds in a deciduous woodland on the edge of the Somerset Levels. Revel in this incredible spring orchestra of natural music that most people ...
May 28, 2021 · 12 min
Sound Escape 15: relax to the gentle patter of rain in a Maytime bluebell wood
Welcome to Sound Escapes – your chance to relax to the sounds of nature no matter how busy you are. In this episode, we take you to Bickley Wood on the River Avon the outskirts of Bristol where bluebells are freshly in bloom. A gentle rain is falling. ...
May 25, 2021 · 45 min
102. Forgotten tales, ancient woods and fairytale creatures on the loch – enjoy spring on the Hebridean Isle of Seil
Join poet Kenneth Steven for an early spring adventure in an ancient hazel wood, a mysterious glen and a beautiful loch on his home island of Seil in the Inner Hebrides. Along the way Kenneth recounts tales of history and mystery – and finish with one ...
May 21, 2021 · 8 min
Sound Escape 14: relax to the dawn chorus from a West Country oak wood
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes offer you a short meditative journey into the natural world this spring to find peace, beauty and relaxation. In this episode, you're transported to an oak woodland on a small hill in the West Country....
May 18, 2021 · 54 min
101. An adventure to hear a booming bittern in the magnificent marshes of Avalon
Explore the lagoons, reedbeds and woodlands of Somerset Levels with two of the regular podcast team as they try to hear the mournful yet powerful boom of the bittern. This waterbird was once critically endangered but has made a dramatic comeback with 3...
May 14, 2021 · 8 min
Sound Escape 13: a few minutes of total peace deep in the Somerset Levels
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes offer you a short meditative journey into the natural world this spring to find peace, beauty and relaxation. In episode 13, you are transported to a woodland on the edge of a lagoon and reedbed deep in the...
May 11, 2021 · 55 min
100. A wander along the Dorset coast in search of adders and spring migrants
Join naturalist, writer and angler Kevin Parr as he explores the little-known coastal scrublands near Chesil Beach in Dorset to encounter Britain's only venomous snake, the rare and beautiful adder. Along the way, he meets many other wildlife inha...
May 7, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 12: lesser spotted woodpeckers and spring songbirds in a Celtic rainforest
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes – your chance to enjoy a delightful few minutes of spring wildlife no matter how busy you are. In this episode, we're sitting in an oak woodland mid April, listening to the songs of many spe...