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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
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May 4, 2021 · 59 min
99. A spring adventure in a wildlife paradise – and the quest for a legendary woodpecker
Explore a fabulous spring day among the atmospheric woods, meadows and salt marshes of RSPB Ynys Hir on the Dyfi Estuary in mid Wales. Containing a magnificent example of Celtic rainforest, Ynys Hir is home to a fabulous arrays of birds, insects, wildf...
Apr 30, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 11: the glorious song of nightingales from a Dorset wood
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine – your chance for a relaxing escape into nature no matter how busy you are. In this episode, it's evening at Alners Gorse, a nature reserve in Dorset run by Butterfly Conservation. As the dew ...
Apr 27, 2021 · 50 min
98. Spring on a Cotswolds farm with Countryfile's Adam Henson
In the second episode of our Spring Across Britain series, we meet Countryfile's farmer Adam Henson. Adam farms in the Cotswolds and he reveals the extraordinary burgeoning of life on the farm – from serenading skylarks to bleating newborn lambs. ...
Apr 23, 2021 · 10 min
Sound Escape 10: the soft crooning of nesting geese on the Dyfi Estuary
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine – your chance to sit back and relax to the sounds of nature wherever you are and whatever you are doing. In this episode, we're sitting on a wooded promontory above the Dyfi Estuary i...
Apr 20, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
97. A quest for curlews in Somerset's meadows – and a magical talk with singer David Gray
In the first of the new season: Spring Across Britain we meet with RSPB expert Damon Bridge and author and curlew champion Mary Colwell. Listen on as they explore spring wildlife in the fabulous RSPB reserve of Swell Wood and West Sedgemoor – in the ho...
Apr 16, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 9: peregrines calling from crags in the Brecon Beacons
Welcome to Sound Escapes from BBC Countryfile Magazine – your chance for a relaxing escape into nature no matter how busy you are. In this episode, it's late afternoon in early April 2021 and we're at a rocky escarpment in the southern Brecon...
Apr 13, 2021 · 18 min
Spring across Britain – a new season of delightful podcasts from BBC Countryfile Magazine
Welcome to season 9 of the BBC Countryfile Magazine Podcast. Your chance for a weekly escape into the wild and beautiful countryside.Season 9 is our most ambitious project yet – capturing Spring Across Britain as it unfurls in 12 different wild landsc...
Apr 9, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 8: the soothing rush of the incoming tide on a Gower beach
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes – your chance to relax into nature for a few precious moments. In this episode, it's late afternoon and we've arrived at a small cove on the South Gower coast to hear waves rising and f...
Apr 2, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 7: a mistle thrush and friends greet a crisp March morning in a Gwent woodland
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes, beautiful short episodes of natural sound from the British countryside. They're your chance for a burst of wild freedom when you can't get out there yourself. In this episode, it'...
Mar 30, 2021 · 55 min
96. Enjoy a wild wander along a Gower stream to the sea – with a treasure hunt!
Follow a sparkling stream through a hidden valley on the Gower Peninsular in South Wales to arrive at a smuggler's cove. Along the way, the podcast team hunt for treasures in the stream, meet the local wildlife and encounter a very mysterious fish.
Mar 26, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 6: the gentle chatter of house sparrows and dunnocks in a Gower hedgerow
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, we’re pausing beside a hedgerow on the edge of a small field in Gower, South Wales. It’s a bitterly cold and overcast Sunday morning but the house s...
Mar 23, 2021 · 54 min
95. A delightful morning on a Devon river with wildlife photographer Jim Brown
Storyteller Martin Maudsley meets wildlife photographer and countryman Jim Brown on Jim's local river, the Axe, which flows from Somerset into East Devon. They discuss otters, swans, folklore and farming – and the dedication wildlife photographers...
Mar 19, 2021 · 8 min
Sound Escape 5: wandering along an ancient holloway in the Brecon Beacons
Welcome to the Countryfile Magazine Sound Escapes – your chance to spend a blissful five minutes in the countryside however busy you are. In this episode, ramble along an ancient track through a steeply banked holloway down into a wild valley. Enjoy th...
Mar 16, 2021 · 47 min
94. A soothing walk at dawn along a Brecon Beacons canal – with gorgeous spring birdsong
Enjoy listening to the delightful songs of song thrushes, robins and treecreepers as we wander along the towpath of the Monmouth-Brecon canal high up in the Brecon Beacons. Listen out for an extremely early chiffchaff and encounters with narrowboats an...
Mar 12, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 4: an evening chorus of birdsong on the River Avon near Bristol
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, it is dusk on a flood-swollen River Avon on the outskirts of Bristol and the melodies of robins and song thrushes soothe the watery twilight. So sit...
Mar 9, 2021 · 55 min
93. A riverside wander in search of Britain's most mysterious fish – the eel
Annabel Ross wades through floodwater in the Severn Valley near Tewksbury to meet Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group and talk about the astonishing serpent-like eel and its still unexplained life story. We meet a traditional Severn Elver fisherma...
Mar 5, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 3: listen to waders, wildfowl and skylarks on the wide marshes of Lancashire's Ribble estuary
Welcome to theSound Escape from BBC Countryfile Magazine – a chance for a few minutes relaxation as you listen to the sounds of nature and the countryside. In this episode we head along the sea defences of the Ribble Estuary in Lancashire on a bright F...
Mar 2, 2021 · 41 min
92. Discovering curious tales of folklore from Britain's rivers and seas
Dee Dee Chainey has been collected stories and legends about folklore from around the world during her Folklore Thursday sessions on social media – in this episode she reveals tales of ghosts, monsters, spirits and superstitions that abide around our w...
Feb 26, 2021 · 9 min
Sound Escape 2: new lambs and early birds on a frozen Monmouth-Brecon canal in Wales
Welcome to the second Sound Escape from BBC Countryfile Magazine, a short meditative journey into the countryside right now to immerse yourself in the sounds of nature. In this episode, we take an icy dawn walk along the frozen Mon-Brec canal in Monmou...
Feb 23, 2021 · 45 min
91. A charming ramble along Derbyshire's River Govt to talk wildlife, angling and local history
Angler and writer Andrew Griffiths takes us for a charming summer's ramble around his local waterways on the Cheshire-Derbyshire border. He chats to passers-by, goes pond-dipping with children and meets a man hoping to catch the first salmon on th...