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Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Sathnam Sanghera goes home to Wolverhampton

    Thu 24 Nov 2016

    Writer Sathnam Sanghera goes home to Wolverhampton to discover a changed landscape.

  • David Lindo on the Isle of Man

    Thu 17 Nov 2016

    David Lindo, AKA the Urban Birder, leaves the city to meet the wildlife of the Isle of Man

  • Snowdonia Marathon

    Thu 10 Nov 2016

    Helen Mark meets the runners, organisers and volunteers behind Snowdonia Marathon.

  • Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean

    Thu 3 Nov 2016

    Helen Mark has a close encounter with some wild boar in the Forest of Dean.

  • Off Grid in Mid-Wales

    Thu 27 Oct 2016

    Guest presenter Ian Marchant meets people who live 'off-grid' in mid-Wales.

  • Bellaghy - Seamus Heaney's ±«Óãtvplace

    Thu 8 Sep 2016

    Helen Mark travels to Bellaghy to discover poet Seamus Heaney's '±«Óãtvplace'.

  • Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens

    Thu 1 Sep 2016

    Helen Mark finds out how a proposed golf resort in Hoylake will affect the green belt.

  • Helen Baxendale visits Belper in Derbyshire

    Thu 25 Aug 2016

    Helen Baxendale visits Belper in Derbyshire to explore the traces of its industrial past.

  • Spurn Point Lifeboat Station

    Thu 18 Aug 2016

    Helen Mark meets the only full-time lifeboat crew in the UK at Spurn Point in East Yorks.

  • The 'Man Engine' in Cornwall's mining landscape

    Thu 11 Aug 2016

    Helen Mark meets the UK's largest puppet, Man Engine, in Cornwall's mining landscape.

  • Orkney Wildlife in Crisis

    Thu 4 Aug 2016

    Orkney's incredible wildlife is under threat. Helen Mark discovers how technology can help

  • Capability Brown at 300

    Thu 28 Jul 2016

    Helen Mark finds out why Capability Brown is heralded as the Shakespeare of gardening.

  • Biodiversity at Heathrow

    Thu 21 Jul 2016

    Helen Mark visits Heathrow to discover how the airport encourages biodiversity.

  • The Dolphins of Cardigan Bay

    Thu 14 Jul 2016

    Patrick Aryee encounters the dolphins and dolphin-watchers of Cardigan Bay.

  • Bishop Auckland, History in Production

    Thu 7 Jul 2016

    Helen Mark explores the history of Bishop Auckland as theatrical production Kynren opens.

  • Midsummer Music in Orkney

    Thu 30 Jun 2016

    Helen Mark visits Orkney to hear music and stories from 40 years of St Magnus Festival.

  • Dawn Chorus across Europe

    Thu 12 May 2016

    Brett Westwood follows the dawn chorus from east to west across Europe.

  • Tennyson's Lincolnshire

    Thu 5 May 2016

    Helen Mark explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the poetry of Tennyson.

  • Southwell Races, Nottinghamshire

    Thu 28 Apr 2016

    Helen Mark spends a day at the rural racetrack of Southwell in Nottinghamshire.

  • Old Oswestry Hillfort

    Thu 21 Apr 2016

    Helen Mark visits the Iron Age hillfort in Oswestry, Shropshire.

  • The National Forest: 25 Years

    Thu 14 Apr 2016

    Helen Mark visits the National Forest as it marks 25 years.

  • Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys

    Thu 7 Apr 2016

    Helen Mark visits the nodding donkeys of the Gainsborough Trough.

  • Return to the Fens

    Thu 11 Feb 2016

    Helen Mark and writer Simon Barnes explore the Great Fen and Charles Rothschild's legacy.

  • Scowles in the Forest of Dean

    Thu 28 Jan 2016

    Helen Mark is in the Forest of Dean in search of geological formations known as scowles.

  • Somerset Peat: Past, Present and Future

    Thu 21 Jan 2016

    Helen Mark uncovers why peat makes the Somerset Levels a special place to visit.

  • Yorkshire in the Dark

    Thu 14 Jan 2016

    Yorkshire looks different in the dark. Helen Mark looks into the heavens and underground.

  • River Tay

    Thu 7 Jan 2016

    Salmon, apples and whisky. Caz Graham follows the fertile flow of the River Tay.

  • The Northern Lights at Christmas

    Thu 17 Dec 2015

    Helen Mark visits Swedish Lapland to discover the myths and magic of the Northern Lights.

  • Lincolnshire Coast Revival

    Thu 10 Dec 2015

    Helen Mark visits the Lincolnshire Coast to find new life and regeneration in the winter.

  • Welsh Valleys after Coal

    Thu 3 Dec 2015

    Felicity Evans asks how the valleys of south Wales have fared since the mines closed.

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