Open Country Podcast
Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles
Episodes to download
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Black Poplars: How to Save a Tree
Thu 2 Oct 2025
Martha Kearney finds out about the black poplar, Britain's most endangered tree.
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The Stones of Snuff Mills
Thu 25 Sep 2025
Industrial centre turned nature reserve with stories of ghosts, fossils and an asylum.
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Fair Isle
Thu 18 Sep 2025
Martha Kearney is on one of Britain's most isolated islands, famous for knitting and birds
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The Menai Strait
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Martha Kearney visits the stretch of water which separates Anglesey from mainland Wales.
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Pingos and Pool Frogs
Thu 4 Sep 2025
Martha Kearney visits the Ice Age ponds called pingos which are being brought back to life
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Exploring the Lakes by wheelchair
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Caz Graham tries out a scheme which helps disabled people access the Lake District
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Aeolian harps on Wicken Fen
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Martha Kearney learns to make an aeolian harp on Wicken Fen
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Flutterings on the Fleet
Thu 15 May 2025
Martha Kearney meets little terns and swans by Dorset's unique and beautiful Fleet Lagoon.
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion
Thu 8 May 2025
How the port of Bristol fundamentally changed the shape of the city and the land around it
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Wild and Windy Fylde
Thu 1 May 2025
Martha Kearney learns about the part wind has played in shaping the Lancashire landscape.
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The People's Forest
Thu 24 Apr 2025
How Epping Forest was fought for, and saved by, the people of East London.
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Time travel on Orkney
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Rose Ferraby journeys through the history of the Orkney coastline.
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Shifting Sands of Sefton
Thu 10 Apr 2025
An exploration of the Sefton coastline between Liverpool and Southport.
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Cornish Mining
Thu 3 Apr 2025
Martha Kearney takes a trip through the past, present and future of mining in Cornwall.
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These Debatable Lands
Thu 3 Oct 2024
Helen Mark explores 50 square miles that were neither England nor Scotland.
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The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Martha Kearney discovers how one of the UK's largest nature projects is taking root.
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Night under the Stars
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Helen Mark joins a group of young carers as they spend a night under canvas on Dartmoor.
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Aberaeron's Mackerel Festival
Thu 12 Sep 2024
How mackerel (and other fish) have shaped the people and landscape of Aberaeron.
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Wildlife Watching on Mull
Thu 5 Sep 2024
This week, Open Country visits Mull to learn about responsible wildlife watching.
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Writing Wildness
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Helen Mark heads to the Shropshire hills to discover how to write about nature.
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The Sound of The Fens
Thu 8 Aug 2024
The people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles
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Anneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in Suffolk
Thu 13 Jun 2024
The landscapes and seascapes that have inspired the artist Maggi Hambling.
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Wiltshire's white horses
Thu 6 Jun 2024
Helen Mark explores the chalk hill carvings of the Wiltshire landscape.
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Shivering Sands
Thu 30 May 2024
Martha Kearney explores the history of the Shivering Sands sea forts off the Kent coast.
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Gibraltar Point
Thu 16 May 2024
Martha Kearney explores the shifting sands of Gibraltar Point, on the Lincolnshire coast.
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Mapping Britain's Holloways
Thu 9 May 2024
Helen Mark takes a trip along the ancient sunken roads of Dorset.
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