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Sound Escape 285. Gentle breezes and summer melodies from a meadow in Sussex
Season 19
It's too hot for gardening so you retire to a wildflower meadow where a cooling breeze and gentle conversations of sparrows and jackdaws soothe your …
2 months, 1 week ago
362. Enjoy and evening with long-eared owls and a lazy day's fishing with writer Kevin Parr
Season 19 Episode 63
We head to Dorset this month to spend a day fishing at a lazy summer lake in the company of Plodcast regular Kevin Parr. But in a perfect Plodcast tw…
2 months, 1 week ago
Sound Escape 284. Hear the beautiful music of a mountain spring in a dry summer landscape
Season 19
Walking high in the parched hills you suddenly hear the welcome music of running water. After a brief search, you find a small cave mouth where a spr…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
361. Discover the secret lives of our forgotten coastal communities with Natasha Carthew
Season 19 Episode 62
When we go on holiday to the coast, we tend to overlook the stories of the people who live and work there. Natasha Carthew grew up in a working class…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Sound Escape 283. Lose track of time gazing into the watery seashore
Season 19
It’s a sunny morning on the seashore and the tide is going out. It’s Leaving behind shallow rockpools, perfect mirrors of the crisp, blue sky.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
360. Celebrate 100 years of Winnie the Pooh with new stories in 100 Acre Wood from Jane Riordan
Season 19 Episode 61
Back in 1926, the first Winnie the Pooh book was published – and became one of the most loved children's stories of all time. One hundred years later…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sound Escape 282. Immerse yourself in the manic action of a sand martin colony
Season 19
As you crest a little riverside cliff, the air is filled with clicks, trills and buzzes. Squadrons of sand martins career wildly around you from thei…
3 months ago
359. Learn how to rewild yourself and your community with adventurer Alastair Humphreys
Season 19 Episode 60
One of the biggest issues facing our wildlife and wild places is our own disconnection from the natural world. You've got to love it to save it, says…
3 months ago
Sound Escape 281. Listen to whitethroats and kestrels beside the River Medway in Kent
Season 19
Walking beside the deep green River Medway in Kent, your path takes in a broad meander that curls around a wildflower-rich meadow. Blackcaps and whit…
3 months, 1 week ago
358. Hear tales from the mill on a beautiful Hampshire chalkstream with Simon Cooper
Season 19 Episode 59
Is the chalk stream the purest and most delightful natural habitat in England? Plodcast host Fergus Collins heads to the Hampshire-Wiltshire border t…
3 months, 1 week ago