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Sound Escape 126: Relax beside a magical woodland stream on the edge of Cardiff
Season 16
Huddled between the urban brawn of Cardiff, Caerphilly and Newport is small woodland of spruce and birds and dank gullies. There is a stream in this …
3 years, 3 months ago
203: Drift gently down the River Wye on a paddleboard
Season 16 Episode 12
This week we’re out on the water – a two-day paddleboarding adventure on the Wye the great river that flows through the borders of England and Wales.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 125: Relax to birdsong in a woodland glade on the Isle of Wight coast
Season 16
It’s a sunny evening in a wooded glade on quiet stretch of the Isle of Wight's northern shore. Just beyond the trees, the sea bustles. But here, joll…
3 years, 3 months ago
202: Listen to the poetry of moss in a Dartmoor rainforest with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Season 16 Episode 11
This week Annabel Ross ventures forth to the tangled rainforest of Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor to meet poet Elizabeth Jane Burnett.But their mission i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 124: A mindful few minutes beside a rockpool in Wester Ross
Season 16
You spot a shelf of rock at the far end of the moon-shaped bay and make for it, the fine sand giving way to warm, angular, salt-rough ground. The scr…
3 years, 3 months ago
201. Finding music in nature with composer Erland Cooper
Season 16 Episode 10
Plodcast host Annabel Ross is on a musical mission, discovering how nature and wild sounds can influence a modern composer – in
this case, acclaimed m…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 123: Soothing waves on shingle – on the Isle of Wight
Season 16
It's a still summer's evening on a beach on the Isle of Wight. It’s still very warm and the heat seems to affect the sea itself. Wavelets sweep lazil…
3 years, 3 months ago
200. Episode 200 Special: A quest for kingfishers in the heart of Bristol
Season 16 Episode 9
The Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah and Jack explore the River Frome in search of kingfishers, which some of the team have never seen. Along the way,…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sound Escape 122: Chris Yates reads from the Secret Carp
Season 16
This week we're heading deep into the Sussex countryside in the company of writer and angler Chris Yates. In this, the first chapter from his book Th…
3 years, 4 months ago
199. A quest for skylark song in the Cotswold Hills with James MacDonald Lockhart
Season 16 Episode 8
This week we’re going back to early spring and a trip to the north Cotswolds in Warwickshire to meet James Macdonald Lockhart who has written a book …
3 years, 4 months ago