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 explores the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal which is celebrating its 200th anniversary
Helen Mark explores the churches of rural Herefordshire
Jules Hudson is in the South of England looking at the effects of the drought on rivers and wildlife
Helen Mark explores the most southerly island in Wales, Flatholm
Helen Mark investigates the impact of the Kent landscape on Dickens life and work.
Clare Balding is joined by the former poet laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, in his childhood village of Stisted in Essex
Clare Balding walks part of the Beacons Way in the Brecon Beacons National Park
Almost 80 years since the Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout, Clare Balding joins ramblers from Manchester and Sheffield to mark this inspirational moment in walking history.
Clare Balding joins poet and writer, Annamaria Murphy, on a storytelling journey in Cornwall
Clare Balding joins walkers from the Wee Binnians Walking Club to climb to the summit of Slieve Binnian in Northern Ireland.
Clare Balding joins Dame Fiona Reynolds, Director General of the National Trust, to walk a section of the new Octavia Hill Centenary Trail.
Jules Hudson is in East Anglia finding out about a Bronze Age landscape buried deep beneath the fens
Jules Hudson visits an Afghan Village at an army training base in Norfolk
Helen Mark investigates the latest in the debate on hunting with dogs.
Helen Mark visits Weymouth and Portland to find out if the area is ready to host the sailing events of the London 2012 Olympics.
