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Sound Escape 221. Be charmed by chiffchaffs and blackcaps beside a woodland pool
Season 18
A wander through a scrubby wooded cwm brings you out into a glade with a view towards the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire. But at your feet is a calm …
1 year, 5 months ago
298. A walk with Robert Macfarlane along a Cambridge chalk stream to its magical spring
Season 18 Episode 58
A special extended edition of the Plodcast this week as we embark on an adventure with celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane to walk the length of a ch…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sound Escape 220. Sit back and enjoy a ride in a canalboat
Season 18
Is there a more peaceful way to travel than by canal boat? You sit back and relax as you potter slowly along the Monmouth-Brecon canal. But what's th…
1 year, 5 months ago
297. A quest to find a solution to the climate crisis - with Tony Juniper
Season 18 Episode 57
Come to the centre of Cambridge to walk along the River Cam with Tony Juniper. Conservationist and chair of Natural England, Tony is one of the world…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sound Escape 219. A sandpiper serenade on the River Usk
Season 18
You pause beside the river, watching sunlight play on the rapids. Above the rush of the water, you hear the excitable snickering of common sandpipers…
1 year, 5 months ago
296. Discover a wilder way to garden - and to live - with Poppy Okotcha
Season 18 Episode 56
Poppy Okotcha explains how to garden for contentment, health and deeper connection with nature and community. Plodcast host Fergus Collins met the fa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sound Escape 218. Dusk settles on a peaceful farmyard
Season 18
It's early evening on a remote sheep farm in Warwickshire. The orange sunset slants through the trees and the lambs are softly bleating.
BBC Countryfi…
1 year, 6 months ago
295. Explore a Warwickshire farm at lambing time with Bizza Walters
Season 18 Episode 55
This week we're heading to a sheep farm in Warwickshire just south of Birmingham. It's lambing time and young farmer Bizza Walters and her family rev…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sound Escape 217. Enjoy the zipping song of a yellowhammer at the bottom of the garden
Season 18
In a peaceful Dorset valley, a garden looks onto wide farmland. As a blackbird sings seductively from the hedgerow, a yellowhammer tests out his risi…
1 year, 6 months ago
294. Take a walk on the Pennine Way with folk singer Johnny Campbell
Season 18 Episode 54
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the opening of Britain's most famous long-distance footpath, Plodcast host Fergus met folk singer Johnny Campbel…
1 year, 6 months ago