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170. In conversation with actress Jenny Agutter
Season 14 Episode 6
Jenny Agutter has been a household name since her starring role in the 1970 film The Railway Children. This year, she reprises her role in The Railwa…
3 years, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 88: the mesmerising sound of steady rain in the garden
Season 14
You open the back door and look out into the garden. Rain streaks down, steady and hypnotic. From a bush a robin sparks up occasionally but nothing e…
3 years, 11 months ago
169. More magic at the Folk by the Oak festival – including The Proclaimers and Spell Songs
Season 14 Episode 5
We return for a second episode at the Folk by the Oak Festival in Hertfordshire. Annabel Ross talks to Karine Polwart from Spell Songs and we hear th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Sound Escape 87: An amazing paddleboarding journey – with geese
Season 14
Enjoy a relaxing experience paddleboarding on a stretch of the River Wye in Herefordshire, where a flock of about 300 Canada geese begin an extraordi…
4 years ago
168. Enjoy music inspired by the countryside at the Folk by the Oak Festival: Part 1
Season 14 Episode 4
Enjoy the delights of the Folk by Our festival In part one of two brilliant episodes, Annabel Ross visits the Folk by the Oak festival in Hertfordshi…
4 years ago
Sound Escape 86: the thrilling sounds when waves meet a rocky headland
Season 14
Besieged by gales and restless sea, a rocky peninsula holds firm on the northern Anglesey coast, unchanged through many millennia of daily assaults.…
4 years ago
167. A walk with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall at River Cottage
Season 14 Episode 3
Catch up with writer, presenter, farmer, forager and campaigner Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, 20 years after his first adventures into smallholding wh…
4 years ago
Sound Escape 85: be mesmerised by the soft burble of a Welsh stream
Season 14
Between the great, lumbering bulk of the Cambrian Mountains and Shropshire’s autumn-kissed hills there is a landscape of quiet repute. Here the groun…
4 years ago
166. Meet puffins, guillemots and skuas on the seabird sanctuary of Handa Island
Season 14 Episode 2
In this episode podcast host Fergus Collins heads to a wild island off the coast of Scotland. Called Handa, it is managed entirely for wildlife by th…
4 years ago
Sound Escape 84: a mellow moment beside a sleepy Somerset canal
Season 14
It's a lazy September afternoon on a Somerset canal. You've found an enchanted place to rest beside a bridge – where a robin's wistful song sweetens …
4 years ago