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259. Find lost artefacts on the River Thames with mudlarker Lara Maiklem
Season 18 Episode 19
Join Plodcast host Fergus on the Thames foreshore with legendary mudlarker Lara Maiklem searching for historical artefacts and oddities among the san…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sound Escape 181. Take a moorland stroll among pipits and skylarks
Season 18
This week we're striding out across a wider moorland ridge with bilberry, bracken and heather flanking the path. It's a rare calm day in the uplands …
2 years, 2 months ago
258. Spend the day in a summer meadow at glorious Wakehurst in Sussex
Season 18 Episode 18
This week we're exploring the Royal Botanical Gardens of Wakehurst in Sussex exploring why meadows filled with grasses, herbs and flowers are so vita…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sound Escape 180. Be calmed by gentle rain on summer leaves
Season 18
You're walking an ancient tree-line lane up a hillside when a brief summer rain shower takes you by surprise. Sheltering under a kindly horse chestnu…
2 years, 2 months ago
257. A quest for beauty - and yellowhammer song - on a midsummer mountain
Season 18 Episode 17
This week the Plodcast heads into the uplands of the Bannau Brycheinog to explore the summer wildlife that abounds there. Plodcast host Fergus is hop…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sound Escape 179. Chill to a lazy symphony of birdsong in a lakeside woodland
Season 18
The anglers have departed, the dog-walkers have gone home. The lake is still. You are alone by a strip of woodland on the edge of the water, listenin…
2 years, 3 months ago
256. One man's quest to drive back the dark woods with music
Season 18 Episode 16
Head into the deep dark wood with composer and pianist Alexander Chapman Campbell to hear about his quest to raise awareness of the perils of conifer…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 178. Relax in an overgrown churchyard on the mellowest of summer evenings
Season 18
It's evening, just after midsummer's day, and a walk has taken you down a winding lane to a tiny medieval church. In the churchyard, lichen-crusted g…
2 years, 3 months ago
255. A quest to explore the magic of flight with Lev Parikian
Season 18 Episode 15
The Plodcast heads to the dreamy surrounds of Richmond Park in south-west London to discuss the wonders of flights with author and conductor Lev Pari…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 177. Sunlight and birdsong stream through a summer woodland
Season 18
Morning has broken. A wood pigeon coos its lazy welcome to summer, surrounded by a chorus of chaffinches, blackbirds, wrens and chiffchaffs. The new …
2 years, 3 months ago