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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Wildlife Artists on Massingham Heath
Thursday
Martha Kearney meets the artists documenting the return of this ancient Norfolk grassland.
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Roadside Verges
Thu 30 Apr 2026
Martha Kearney explores the forgotten and neglected world of roadside verges.
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Welsh Incident in Criccieth
Thu 23 Apr 2026
Jon Gower is in Criccieth to explore the inspiration behind Robert Graves鈥檚 1929 poem.
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Carrifran Wildwood
Thu 9 Apr 2026
Martha Kearney visits an eco-restoration project in lowland Scotland.
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In Celebration of the Daffodil
Thu 2 Apr 2026
Martha Kearney is in Cambridgeshire to celebrate the humble daffodil.
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Restoring Wallasea's Wild Coast
Thu 26 Mar 2026
The island in Essex has been made into a magical landscape of marshland, lagoons and sea.
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Stroudwater's missing mile
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Martha Kearney finds out about ambitious restoration plans for the Stroudwater canal.
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The Rock Houses of Staffordshire
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Martha Kearney visits the cave dwellings at Kinver Edge that were lived in until the 1960s
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Hedgerow havens
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Martha Kearney finds out about hedgerows, learning about their history and their ecology.
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The Mourne Mountain Fires
Thu 19 Feb 2026
How this landscape, often shrouded in cloud and rain, is affected by recurrent fires.
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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.
