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Sound Escape 7: a mistle thrush and friends greet a crisp March morning in a Gwent woodland
Season 8
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes, beautiful short episodes of natural sound from the British countryside. They're your chance for …
5 years, 6 months ago
96. Enjoy a wild wander along a Gower stream to the sea – with a treasure hunt!
Season 8 Episode 12
Follow a sparkling stream through a hidden valley on the Gower Peninsular in South Wales to arrive at a smuggler's cove. Along the way, the podcast t…
5 years, 6 months ago
Sound Escape 6: the gentle chatter of house sparrows and dunnocks in a Gower hedgerow
Season 8
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, we’re pausing beside a hedgerow on the edge o…
5 years, 6 months ago
95. A delightful morning on a Devon river with wildlife photographer Jim Brown
Season 8 Episode 11
Storyteller Martin Maudsley meets wildlife photographer and countryman Jim Brown on Jim's local river, the Axe, which flows from Somerset into East D…
5 years, 6 months ago
Sound Escape 5: wandering along an ancient holloway in the Brecon Beacons
Season 8
Welcome to the Countryfile Magazine Sound Escapes – your chance to spend a blissful five minutes in the countryside however busy you are. In this epi…
5 years, 6 months ago
94. A soothing walk at dawn along a Brecon Beacons canal – with gorgeous spring birdsong
Season 8 Episode 10
Enjoy listening to the delightful songs of song thrushes, robins and treecreepers as we wander along the towpath of the Monmouth-Brecon canal high up…
5 years, 7 months ago
Sound Escape 4: an evening chorus of birdsong on the River Avon near Bristol
Season 8
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, it is dusk on a flood-swollen River Avon on t…
5 years, 7 months ago
93. A riverside wander in search of Britain's most mysterious fish – the eel
Season 8 Episode 9
Annabel Ross wades through floodwater in the Severn Valley near Tewksbury to meet Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group and talk about the astonis…
5 years, 7 months ago
Sound Escape 3: listen to waders, wildfowl and skylarks on the wide marshes of Lancashire's Ribble estuary
Season 8
Welcome to theSound Escape from BBC Countryfile Magazine – a chance for a few minutes relaxation as you listen to the sounds of nature and the countr…
5 years, 7 months ago
92. Discovering curious tales of folklore from Britain's rivers and seas
Season 8 Episode 8
Dee Dee Chainey has been collected stories and legends about folklore from around the world during her Folklore Thursday sessions on social media – i…
5 years, 7 months ago