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Sound Escape 216. Winter fieldfares mix with spring skylarks and starling as winter yields to spring
Season 18
We're on the cusp of spring but winter clings on in rasping voices of ravens. As you walk in the cold sunlight of early March across a field to a sta…
1 year, 6 months ago
293. A quest for spring birdsong in a Welsh woodland - plus a reading by author Kerri Andrews
Season 18 Episode 53
This week, join Plodcast host Fergus Collins as he explores a local woodland for the first time in search of a legendary woodpecker – with gorgeous b…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sound Escape 215. Listen to spring birdsong along a country lane
Season 18
A muddy farm track separates willow woodland from a wide expanse of marshland. You pause to listen to linnets commuting from wood to water meadow whi…
1 year, 6 months ago
292. Talking big farming issues in a walk through a forgotten landscape in Leicestershire
Season 18 Episode 52
This week we're in Leicestershire exploring the beautiful Welland Valley with countryside writer and farming expert Tim Relf.
Plodcast host Fergus wal…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sound Escape 214. Stand on an ancient bridge and listen to a clear stream flowing beneath
Season 18
You've discovered a forgotten valley in the Blackdown Hills. After descending an ancient holloway, you arrive at a bridge over a chuckling stream. Wi…
1 year, 6 months ago
291. Explore a rewilding project in Lincolnshire with artist Hannah Dale
Season 18 Episode 51
Head to Lincolnshire in the east of England to explore an exciting new rewilding project. Hannah Dale is an artist and farmer who struggled to make a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sound Escape 213. The atmosphere of the Giant's Grave, an ancient burial mound in Wiltshire
Season 18
On a long, lonely walk across the windswept open lands of the Marlborough Downs, you come across a large, oval barrow partially hidden in a stand of …
1 year, 7 months ago
290. How being in the moment in nature can bring lasting happiness
Season 18 Episode 50
Do we spend too much time thinking and not enough time simply being? Life coach Dr Giles Croft reveals how being out in nature and learning to not ta…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sound Escape 212. A burst of early spring birdsong on a rare sunny day
Season 18
After many days of wet, grey gloom, a hopeful sunny day hints at spring – and draws out the birds in a public garden deep in the Welsh borders. Great…
1 year, 7 months ago
289. Discover the extraordinary magnetism of the Welsh Marches, with writer Mike Parker
Season 18 Episode 49
Walk Hergest Ridge in Herefordshire on the Welsh border in the company of walker and writer Mike Parker who has spent years exploring the unique peop…
1 year, 7 months ago