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274. A walk in Roald Dahl country with environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole
Season 18 Episode 34
Plodcast host Fergus walks with campaigner Guy Shrubsole in the Chilterns' woodlands that inspired Roald Dahl's famous children's book: Danny Champio…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 196. Be soothed by the rush and fall of waves on a rocky coast in Wales
Season 18
As the sun is setting over the Welsh coast, we’re sitting above a cleft in the cliffs. Rhythmically, the waves rush and recede in this open-roofed ca…
1 year, 11 months ago
273. Discover how Empire shaped the British countryside with historian Corinne Fowler
Season 18 Episode 33
Take a walk though the leafy suburbs of south Birmingham with historian Corinne Fowler.
Corinne's studies of how the British Empire impacted rural Bri…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 195. Hear the eerie bellows of red deer stags during the autumn rut
Season 18
It's a sound that seems more attuned to the uplands of the north and west: the deep haunting bellows of red deer. But we're on the edge of London, am…
1 year, 11 months ago
272. A wander in the Cambridgeshire Fens with ground-breaking broadcaster Catherine Carr
Season 18 Episode 32
Catherine Carr is a podcaster and creator of BBC Radio 4's famed 'About the boys' series on what it's like to be a teenage boy in 2024. Hear her insi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 194. Enjoy the beguiling patterns of rainfall in a back garden
Season 18
Forbidding sheets of rain and flooding mean that outdoor adventures must be postponed until tomorrow. But there's something cosy and deeply comfortin…
1 year, 11 months ago
271. A quest to go fishing on a lake where anglers are rarely allowed
Season 18 Episode 31
We've gone fishing! The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis plus angler-writer Kevin Parr are given a unique opportunity to spend a day f…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 193. Sit beside a waterfall in a once-bustling landscape reclaimed by nature
Season 18
Walking in a wide vale of crumbling relics of a long-lost industrial age, you stumble across a small stream, caught in the act of tumbling over a wat…
1 year, 11 months ago
270. Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn join the Plodcast to celebrate their new children's book
Season 18 Episode 30
Nature writer Robert Macfarlane and singer-songwriter-actor Johnny Flynn take Plodcast host Fergus on a ramble along the River Lea in East London. Ha…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 192. Relax to wind in the willows
Season 18
It's early afternoon after heavy rain and you've followed a small brook past waterlogged fields and a stand of willows. The trees' feet, submerged in…
2 years ago