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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- Artist: BBC Radio 4
- Copyright: (C) BBC 2014
Podcasts:
Stuart Maconie walks up the Garth outside Cardiff
Stuart Maconie is in Lancashire for the third of his city skyline walks
Stuart Maconie takes another city skyline walk in the Belfast Hills
New series of Ramblings, this time presented by Stuart Maconie, starts a series of six city skyline walks for winter days in Bath
Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about our obsession with the weather and its impact on our lives and landscape
Helen Mark visits the developing nature reserve of Portbury Wharf and discovers how local residents in Bristol are making a unique investment to their natural habitat.
Richard Uridge meets those who are braving the winter to live like nomads in their yurt high up on Exmoor
Richard Uridge explores the landscape that inspired Roald Dahl and Midsomer Murders
Helen Mark finds out about the transformation of the River Thames
Owen Sheers visits the Mistletoe Festival at Tenbury Wells on the Shropshire/Worcestershire/Herefordshire border
Helen Mark visits Studland Bay to learn about a proposed Marine Conservation Zone
Richard Uridge joins Wildlife Crime Officers and local people on the trail of poachers in Cumbria.
Happisburgh on the Norfolk Coast is home to the UK's only independently run lighthouse .We meet the coastal volunteers who are living out David Cameron's 'big society'.
Helen Mark visits Ardtornish estate in Morvern, in the western Highlands of Scotland
Richard Uridge goes foraging for fungi in the New Forest
