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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
254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker
Season 18 Episode 14
Join an unusual Plodcast adventure in an urban car park with artist and author Anna Chapman Parker. Anna spent a year watching and drawing the wildfl…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 176. Enjoy perky parakeets on a walk in Richmond Park
Season 18
This week we're walking across the open grassland of Richmond Park in south-west London. While jets grumble overhead, rose-ringed parakeets can't res…
2 years, 3 months ago
253. Who is the Orchid Outlaw? And what is he up to in the wilds of Britain?
Season 18 Episode 13
Take an adventure with the Orchid Outlaw – a man braving danger and risking his freedom to rescue Britain's endangered orchids.
Plodcast host Fergus m…
2 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 175. Spend dusk among the beechwoods of Hampshire
Season 18
We're walking in a summertime Narnia of dappled pathways, whispering leaves and the tall, smooth-skinned trunks of beech trees. This is the Blackwood…
2 years, 4 months ago
252. What can you find to eat on an urban foraging adventure in Bristol?
Season 18 Episode 12
Savour the joys of foraging – this time in an urban green haven in the middle of Bristol. Plodcast host Fergus joins foraging expert Andy Hamilton fo…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sound Escape 174. Spend midsummer beside a chuckling river teeming with life
Season 18
It's a hot midsummer day and sunlight sparkles along a stretch of gentle rapids on the River Usk. On the riverbank, floods have carved small cliffs e…
2 years, 4 months ago
251. Should we cull some animals to save others - asks Hugh Warwick?
Season 18 Episode 11
Should some animals be killed in order to protect rarer species or precious habitats? Everything from hedgehogs and mink to crows and deers has been …
2 years, 4 months ago
Sound Escape 173. Enjoy the sultry song of a blackbird at dusk
Season 18
Dusk is falling after a busy bank holiday and a welcome peace is settling over the neighbourhood. The flowering clematis and roses seem to breathe a …
2 years, 4 months ago
250. Hear migrant birds as they arrive in the UK at Portland Bill in Dorset - with one very special visitor
Season 18 Episode 10
Portland Bill in Dorset is famous as a first landing site for thousands of migrant birds as they arrive to breed in the UK this spring and summer. Jo…
2 years, 4 months ago