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Sound Escape 121: A dreamy dawn chorus in a remote Scottish valley
Season 16
We’re near Loch Maree in western Scotland. You’re not sure what woke you first, the light or the birds. Either way, you stir peacefully in your bed, …
3 years, 4 months ago
198. A wander in a bird of prey sanctuary with Megan McCubbin
Season 16 Episode 7
This week we’re meeting naturalist Megan McCubbin who listeners will know from co-hosting TV shows such as Springwatch alongside her step-father Chri…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sound Escape 120: Soothing waves rising and falling on a beach in Wester Ross
Season 16
We're in Wester Ross in the Highlands. The drive to road’s end is long and leisurely, the statuesque mountains and island-scattered lochs of Wester R…
3 years, 4 months ago
197. Why rewilding can save Britain's wildlife – an interview with Isabella Tree at Knepp Wildlands
Season 16 Episode 6
Plodcast host Fergus meets Isabella Tree, who with her husband Charlie Burrell, transformed a loss-making dairy farm at Knepp in Sussex into one of t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sound Escape 119: An astonishing nightingale duet in a Dorset woodland
Season 16
We’re tucked deep in the folds of the north Dorset countryside. As the light fades the dusk chorus rises. In a dense thicket of thorn, a single night…
3 years, 4 months ago
196. A quest for nightingales at Knepp Wildlands in Sussex
Season 16 Episode 5
Plodcast host Fergus camps overnight at the most famous rewilding estate in Britain in the hope of finally hearing nightingales on the Plodcast. But …
3 years, 4 months ago
Sound Escape 118: Relax to spring birdsong in a Dorset garden
Season 16
It's late morning in a springtime Dorset garden. The morning was cool and rainy, but as the wind blows in the trees and mist clears; you look out ove…
3 years, 4 months ago
195. A quest for peace with Charlotte Church in deepest Wales
Season 16 Episode 4
Head with us to deepest Powys in mid Wales to The Dreaming. This wonderful house and surrounding landscape has been opened up as a place of retreat b…
3 years, 5 months ago
Sound Escape 117: Celebrate the stunning dawn chorus at Knepp Wildlands
Season 16
It's early and you're sitting outside a small tent deep the Knepp Wildlands of Sussex. A pre-dawn glow smudges the eastern sky. Elsewhere it is resol…
3 years, 5 months ago
194. A quest to find St Patrick in Northern Ireland
Season 16 Episode 3
We’re in Armagh in Northern Ireland, following in the footsteps of St Patrick. The patron saint of Ireland lived in the 5th century and his incredibl…
3 years, 5 months ago