Coast and Country
Summary: Countryside magazine featuring people, walks and wildlife from rural Britain. Clare Balding’s ‘Ramblings’ and ‘Open Country’ with Matt Baker and Helen Mark join forces to bring you a weekly tour of the best of the British countryside. In ‘Ramblings’ Clare joins her guests on a country walk that’s been significant in their lives. ‘Open Country’ travels to a different corner of the British Isles every week, seeking out the wildlife, the landscapes and the controversies that excite the passions of local people. Each twenty-five minute programme is broadcast on Saturday at 6.07am and repeated on Thursday at 3pm. New episodes are added every Saturday morning.
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- Copyright: (C) BBC 2014
Podcasts:
Helen Mark travels with National Park Ranger Chamu Kuppuswamy as they discover the Indian heritage tucked amongst the wild hills of the Peak District National Park.
Helen Mark explores Chelford Cattle Market in Cheshire where farmers have traded livestock and gossip for over a century.
Helen Mark hears why Dorset has been used as a laboratory by the arts group, Common Ground. A sculptor and composer share their work that's been directly inspired by the county.
Helen Mark visits the small Gloucestershire village of Adlestrop that inspired Edward Thomas' famous poem when his steam train stopped there 100 years ago, on the eve of war.
Helen Mark explores the aviation heritage of 'Bomber County' and finds out how Lincolnshire's former airfields are being used today. Produced by Mary Ward-Lowery
Felicity Evans visits Falkland estate in Fife, home to a former Royal palace. Hereditary Keeper, Ninian Stuart is using his inheritance to increase access to the woods and fields.
Helen Mark meets people who prize the isolation of Strangford Lough including Northern Ireland's first Marine Ranger and the son of Brian Faulkner, its last Prime Minister.
Helen Mark visits the border landscape of Northumberland where in 2013 the 'borderers' found unique ways to commemorate the 500th year anniversary of the battle of Flodden.
Helen Mark meets a gamekeeper preparing for a seasonal shoot and visits Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire, where festive fare includes the game that lives on the estate.
Felicity Evans steps through the history and current plans for the military hospital in Gosport, Hampshire.
Felicity Evans travels the route of the Shropshire Union Canal between Beeston and Ellesmere Port to meet those who've adopted this area as their own.
Tales of sheep smuggling, 'lookers hut's, a nuclear power station and mediaevel churches all unfold as Helen Mark explores Romney Marsh in Kent.
The Irish coastline gets a 2 million pound makeover as five lighthouses are renovated, Helen Mark visits two of them in Northern Ireland to explore our infatuation with them.
Helen Mark arrives on Holy Island just as migrating birds do and learns about their unique relationship with this Northumberland island.
Felicity Evans visits the land that inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth and discovers how this Birmingham Bog also kick started the Urban Wildlife Movement.
