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:
Clare Balding walks the Ancestor's Trail in the Quantock Hills in celebration of Darwin
Clare Balding walks with the Malcolm Saville Society, exploring the authors love of Shropshire.
Clare Balding walks on the Black Hill in Hereford, following in the steps of author Bruce Chatwin.
On the first of a series of literary walks Clare Balding walks in Heptonstall, visiting Ted Hughes birth place and the resting place of Sylvia Plath.
Ten years after the Foot and Mouth crisis of 2001, Helen Mark visits Cumbria.
Helen Mark journeys through Snowdonia from Caernarvon to Porthmadog on the Welsh Highland Railway
Helen Mark visits the island of Barra to hear how the islanders have survived in the past and now fear new threats to their livelihoods.
Richard Uridge has a cinematic experience in the heart of the Herefordshire countryside
Helen Mark is in Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire to find out about Horseback UK.
Richard Uridge finds out that there's more to Sherwood Forest than Robin Hood
Helen Mark discovers the Durham Heritage Coast
Richard Uridge explores the Edgelands, forgotten spaces that are neither urban nor rural
Helen Mark is on Dartmoor to find out about the harsh reality facing some of the moor's iconic ponies
Stuart Maconie with a group of first time walkers from inner city Birmingham
Stuart Maconie and guest, poet Simon Armitage walk part of the Pennine Way near to Manchester
