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Sound Escape 151. Walk beside a wild river tumbling from the hills
Season 17
You're walking beside a stream swollen by rain, which tumbles through a wooded valley, crashing over rocks and weirs. Dippers chatter and dive for fo…
2 years, 9 months ago
228: Walk in the footsteps of soldiers in bloody combat on a Civil War battlefield near Bath
Season 17 Episode 15
Plodcast host Fergus joins historian and battlefield tour guide Julian Humphrys at the site of a Civil War battlefield in the hills just north of Bat…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sound Escape 150: Be uplifted by a chorus of New Year's robins
Season 17
After weeks of rain, it's a clear, calm rosy sunrise. A pair of robins in neighbouring gardens welcome the early sun with wistful phrases as if chatt…
2 years, 9 months ago
227: Tales of birding in wild places with naturalist and author Stephen Moss
Season 17 Episode 14
Plodcast host Fergus joins broadcaster, writer and, best of all, brilliant birder Stephen Moss on a wild stretch of the Somerset coast to look for wi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sound Escape 149: Be soothed by the rhythms of the sea rising and falling in a remote Welsh cove
Season 17
This week we're on the Ceredigion coast - a lonely cove of shingle with the Irish sea rolling with a soothing rhythm. No one else is around, no one t…
2 years, 9 months ago
226: Brace yourself for a wild nighttime swim under a full moon in the depths of winter
Season 17 Episode 13
What is it like to swim outdoors under a full moon in the depths of winter? Maria Hodson braves the inky waters of Clevedon Marine Pool with the Bris…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sound Escape 148: A morning of gulls and rooks on the Somerset Coast
Season 17
Where the Somerset Levels meet the sea, broad, marshy pastures and forgotten fields host gulls, rooks, crows and egrets, foraging for food stirred up…
2 years, 10 months ago
225: It's the Plodcast Christmas special - join the team for the Christmas quiz and other seasonal silliness
Season 17 Episode 12
Join Plodcast host Fergus and regulars Kevin Parr and Annabel Ross as well as editor Dan Kramer-Arden for a lighthearted look back at a year of recor…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sound Escape 147: Be calmed by the autumn song of a Welsh mountain river
Season 17
You're in a wintry valley following a boisterous stream high into the Welsh hills. After recent rain, the water boils and churns and the river's song…
2 years, 10 months ago
224. A quest to see salmon leaping in a Welsh mountain stream
Season 17 Episode 11
Come with us deep into the Welsh hills, to Gilfach Farm, a magical Radnorshire Wildlife Trust reserve in Powys. Here, in the tumbling River Marteg, s…
2 years, 10 months ago