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:
Felicity Evans visits the Minack Theatre at Porthcurno, in the far west of Cornwall. Built into the rocky cliffs overlooking the sea, the theatre was planned, built and financed by one determined woman - Rowena Cade. Local storyteller Mark Harandon has researched and re-created the character of Billy Rawlings, Cade's gardener, who worked for her for 40 years and helped to build the theatre. Mark, as Billy, leads Felicity around the theatre telling stories collected from the family and people who knew him, and reminiscing about how the theatre was built. Felicity goes on to explore the surrounding coastline, visiting the Portcurno Telegraph Museum, the Logan Rock and spotting some Cornish choughs, nesting on the craggy cliffs.
What is phenology? Felicity Evans visits Fenland Cambridgeshire to hear about an influential Victorian vicar who made a great contribution to science, the Reverend Leonard Jenyns.
Helen Mark explores the landslip coastline of the Lyme Regis Undercliffs.
Abstract artist, Graham Sutherland spent much of his life painting Pembrokeshire. Felicity Evans follows his footsteps.
Helen Mark celebrates the arrival of Spring in the South-West of Scotland.
Helen Mark explores the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal
Helen Mark visits the tiny island in the Thames near Brentford, inspiring a colony of artists.
Felicity Evans visits The Black Isle
Felicity Evans finds a number of suprises on the North Norfolk Coast.
Jules Hudson investigates the historic sites at risk of ruin in the West Midlands.
The Stade at Hastings has been home to a fishing fleet for centuries but new regulations threaten its survival. Helen Mark reports.
Peter Pan was first performed 100 years ago. Helen Mark goes in search of its author, J.M. Barrie.
Helen Mark is in Norfolk where preparations for Christmas are well underway
Jules Hudson follows the trail of the canal that never was.
Even in the heart of the city country life holds sway. Helen Mark meets the shepherds and naturalists of Brighton.
