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:
Helen Mark hears how a forest of ten million conifers changed Ayrshire's Whitelee Plateau.
Owen Sheers explores Wales' secret military history from World War II
Helen Mark is in Pluckley to find out what life is like in Britain's most haunted village
Clare Balding takes a walk through the Glasgow Necropolis with a group who are researching the history of women in the city
Clare Balding is in the Pentland Hills outside of Edinburgh with a group of friends who have been walking together for twenty years
Clare Balding walks with a group of women who've produced a book of their favourite walks in the Peak District
Clare Balding in the Forest of Dean with a group walking with donkeys as part of the Cultural Olympiad
Clare Balding walks with a group of people trying to fight the onset of Alzheimers Disease
Clare Balding walks with a group of inner city Londoners on Hampstead Heath
Helen Mark explores a stretch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Helen Mark finds out about the debate around Conservation Grazing in Cornwall
