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BBC Countryfile Magazine brings you The Plodcast - a weekly escape to the British countryside with fascinating guests and the wonders of the great outdoors. Enjoy a new escape into the countryside every Tuesday and wind down with our Sound Escapes on a Friday. Find out more about us at www.countryfile.com/podcast…

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365. A quest to explore the wildlife of the River Thames with writer and naturalist Stephen Rutt

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Sound Escape 287. A blissful few moments beside a Welsh lake in high summer

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364. A walk in Suffolk with award-winning writer Melissa Harrison discussing her new novel The Given World

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Sound Escape 286. In a parched landscape, the generous river provides life and music

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363. Learn about a plan to eradicate destructive, non-native predators

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Sound Escape 285. Gentle breezes and summer melodies from a meadow in Sussex

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362. Enjoy and evening with long-eared owls and a lazy day's fishing with writer Kevin Parr

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Sound Escape 284. Hear the beautiful music of a mountain spring in a dry summer landscape

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361. Discover the secret lives of our forgotten coastal communities with Natasha Carthew

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Sound Escape 283. Lose track of time gazing into the watery seashore

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360. Celebrate 100 years of Winnie the Pooh with new stories in 100 Acre Wood from Jane Riordan

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Sound Escape 282. Immerse yourself in the manic action of a sand martin colony

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359. Learn how to rewild yourself and your community with adventurer Alastair Humphreys

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Sound Escape 281. Listen to whitethroats and kestrels beside the River Medway in Kent

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358. Hear tales from the mill on a beautiful Hampshire chalkstream with Simon Cooper

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Sound Escape 280. Gaze out across a coastal bay, rich with life

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357. Enjoy a sea fishing adventure on the rocky coast of Dorset with Callum Harris

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Sound Escape 279. Wander through a glistening woodland

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356. Witness the amazing power of the outdoors - and rescue hens - to help disadvantaged children

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Sound Escape 278. Wind down on a hazy Welsh clifftop

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355. Head to the Hebridean island of Bute to meet naturalist and author Lucy Lapwing

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Sound Escape 277. Be calmed and cooled by rainfall in an ancient woodland

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354. Chelsea Flower Show Special part 2: In the ancient woodland garden at the show

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Sound Escape 276. The vibrant bird-chatter of an African island

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353. Chelsea Flower Show Special part 1: Exploring Penn Wood, the inspiration for the Woodland Trust's Chelsea Garden

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Sound Escape 275. The enchanted buzz of a honeysuckle plant

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352. Escape to the stunningly beautiful wilds of Torridon in the Scottish Highlands

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Sound Escape 274. A chorus of cuckoos and song thrushes above Loch Torridon

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351. Explore a marvellous garden of bees with writer and expert Dave Goulson

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Sound Escape 273. Hear the magic of willow warblers and chaffinches on the Isle of Purbeck

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350. A quest to find hidden urban wildlife with Amanda Tuke on the streets of Cardiff

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Sound Escape 272. Relax to the evening symphony of an oak woodland - led by a song thrush

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349. Haunting folk tales and beautiful art inspired by nature with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott

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Sound Escape 271. Gaze over the sun-kissed sea on the South-West coast

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348. A quest to discover the secret of painter John Constable's genius - with Susan Owens

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Sound Escape 270. Be entranced by a sensational dawn chorus from Dorset

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347. A marvellous metal detecting quest with Lucy Gray and Ellie Bruce from Roman Found

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Sound Escape 269. Climb up among the skylarks and the meadow pipits

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346. A quest to find Britain's only venomous snake, the adder

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Sound Escape 268. Hear the spring song of the firecrest, Britain's smallest bird

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345. Discover an extraordinary mission to make humans more aquatic. The Plodcast visits DEEP project

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Sound Escape 267. Gaze into the gentle currents of the Kennet and Avon Canal

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344. A thrilling night-time quest to experience the great spring toad migration

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Sound Escape 266. Relax to the dusk melodies of a male blackbird

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343. Join the Plodcast team for a lazy day's fishing on the Kennet and Avon Canal

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Sound Escape 265. Stirrings of spring on Llangorse Lake

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342. A journey through time, land and community with country writer Nicola Chester

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Sound Escape 264. Take the afternoon off by pottering in an allotment

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341. Enjoy the thrill of coldwater swimming in midwinter in the Cotswolds

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Sound Escape 263. Be lulled by the sounds of a 17th-century mill and water wheel in action

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340. Discover the healing power of wild plants with Brigit Anna McNeill

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Sound Escape 262. Be soothed by gentle rain and birdsong

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339. Hear the extraordinary stories of London's last gas lamplighters

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Sound Escape 261. Wander through a woodland listening to a stream's song

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338. Discover the bizarre tale of the last battle fought on English soil - with writer Ian Breckon

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Sound Escape 260. Hear a lost sound of the countryside: the clattering mill

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337. Head into the green lanes of Devon to discuss honesty boxes and mental health with writer Lucy Brazier

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Sound Escape 259. Enjoy the early morning crunch of footsteps in fresh snow

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336. Come for a wander in a winter woodland - and then enjoy the Big Garden Birdwatch

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Sound Escape 258. Wild encounters and roaring waves on the Sussex coast

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335. Meet the rebel wilding lord trying to build the WildKingdom

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Sound Escape 257. Hear a garden come alive with birdsong as it is warmed by the winter sun

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334. Talking curlews and wild musical inspiration with singer-songwriter Merlyn Driver

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Sound Escape 256. The winter song of the River Severn, deep in the heart of Wales

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333. Prepare for the Big Garden Birdwatch with a walk in a special woodland with the RSPB's James Robinson

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Sound Escape 255. A walk through a winter woodland, footsteps hushed by fallen leaves

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332. Blow off the cobwebs with a hike into the hills to find the legendary Chartists' Cave

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Sound Escape 254. Wake up to gentle birdsong in a sleepy village

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331. Enjoy an epic starling murmuration on the Somerset Levels with the Plodcast team

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Sound Escape 253. Hear the voices of a million starlings going to roost

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330. It's the Plodcast Christmas Special and team quiz 2025!

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Sound Escape 252. Enjoy sunshine and peace along the seawall of the Bristol Channel

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329. Making a spun-iron frying pan at a family-run foundry in Shropshire

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Sound Escape 251. Hear the song of the wind on the first icy morning of winter

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328. Hunting for mushrooms - and legendary animals - with Kevin Parr

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Sound Escape 250. Swollen by days of rain, the stream has a new song

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327. Venture out onto the wild Essex marshes with author Michael J Warren

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Sound Escape 249. The haunting calls of waders and wild geese on forgotten Essex coast

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326. Join the Plodcast team for a round up of listener emails and nature chat

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Sound Escape 248. Soft sounds of autumn on the edge of the saltmarsh

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325. Roam a Hampshire woodland in search of rare hazel dormice

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Sound Escape 247. A walk through autumn leaves on an ancient earthwork

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324. Enjoy a mindful walk along the mighty earthwork running through the Welsh Borders known as Offa's Dyke

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Sound Escape 246. Kingfisher calls and dipper song on the rushing river

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323. The Plodcast meets Norman and Saxon warriors at the Battle of Hastings

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Sound Escape 245. Listen to the whispering reedbed as the sun sets over the wetland

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322. Discover the history of England in 25 poems - with Catherine Clarke

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Sound Escape 244. Hear the song of the River Usk in Autumn

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321. Secrets of the darkness on a night walk with Andy Flack

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Sound Escape 243. The sounds of an English churchyard in early autumn

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320. Wander the beaches of North Cornwall with artist Sarah Adams

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Sound Escape 242. Footsteps though a beechwood full of fungi

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319. Why are wallabies living wild on the Isle of Man? The Plodcast investigates

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Sound Escape 241. Take a breather overlooking Exmoor's stunning coastline

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318. Discover the power of old ballads with Amy Jeffs on a walk along an enchanted stream

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Sound Escape 240. Wind down to the evening song of a rural farm

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317. Haunting poetry and crashing waves on the Cornish coast with poet Katrina Naomi

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Sound Escape 239. Listen to the night-time snuffles of a garden hedgehog

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316. Inspiring conservation stories from the Global Birdfair 2025

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Sound Escape 238. Pause on a bridge over a late summer stream

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315. Relax with a dreamy day's fishing beside a sleepy Somerset lake

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Sound Escape 237: Soak in the sounds of rushing rain through the drainpipes

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314. Meet the people behind the Merlin app that helps you ID birdsong

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Sound Escape 236. Perch by a still Somerset lake

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313. A quest to find storks and turtle doves at Knepp Wildlands - with Isabella Tree

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Sound Escape 235. Listen to the distinct chorus of London's parakeets

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312. Join the Plodcast team for a Mighty Hike around the Gower Peninsula

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Sound Escape 234. Relax to the joyful gossip of ducks and hens

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311. Explore the mysteries of the peat bog with Alys Fowler

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Sound Escape 233. Embrace the surging sea on the North Cornwall coast

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310. Meet the monsters lurking in the corners of our landscape and imagination - with Nicholas Jubber

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Sound Escape 232. Be lulled to sleep by the buzz of grasshoppers in a summer meadow

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309. Connection to nature helps can help us tackle life's challenges says author Nic Wilson

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Sound Escape 231. Rest by a cooling river on a hot midsummer day

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308. Embark on a Big Butterfly Count on the Dorset coast with Butterfly Conservation

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Sound Escape 230. The soothing gentle patter of rain in a Welsh oakwood

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307. Take a wander along Britain's most famous waterway: The River Test in Hampshire

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Sound Escape 229. Revel in the pure music of curlews at sunset

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306. Walk a Viking battlefield and discover a forgotten turning point in English history - with Rupert Gavin

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Sound Escape 228. The sheer delight of a nightingale singing at dawn

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305. Discover the strangest relationships in the animal world - with Sophie Pavelle

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Sound Escape 227. Enjoy the conversations from a colony of sparrows

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304. Meet some of the UK's most elusive animals - at the British Wildlife Centre

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Sound Escape 226. Be seduced by the song of the blackbird

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303. Learn how to photograph gardens with award-winning photographer Jason Ingram

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Sound Escape 225. Skylarks and corn buntings on a Wiltshire downland

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302. Roaming a magnificent unspoilt downland - and recording a very surprising bird

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Sound Escape 224. Take a moment in the serene woodland of the Hampshire Downs

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301. Explore the D-Day launch point at Lepe in Hampshire with Julian Humphrys

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Sound Escape 223. Be charmed by the many voices of a moorland stream

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300. The team return to Watership Down - the setting for episode 1!

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Sound Escape 222. Hear swallows chatter as they swoop over the farmyard

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299. Explore The Newt, a nature-friendly country house estate in Somerset

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Sound Escape 221. Be charmed by chiffchaffs and blackcaps beside a woodland pool

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298. A walk with Robert Macfarlane along a Cambridge chalk stream to its magical spring

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Sound Escape 220. Sit back and enjoy a ride in a canalboat

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297. A quest to find a solution to the climate crisis - with Tony Juniper

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Sound Escape 219. A sandpiper serenade on the River Usk

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296. Discover a wilder way to garden - and to live - with Poppy Okotcha

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Sound Escape 218. Dusk settles on a peaceful farmyard

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295. Explore a Warwickshire farm at lambing time with Bizza Walters

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Sound Escape 217. Enjoy the zipping song of a yellowhammer at the bottom of the garden

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294. Take a walk on the Pennine Way with folk singer Johnny Campbell

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Sound Escape 216. Winter fieldfares mix with spring skylarks and starling as winter yields to spring

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293. A quest for spring birdsong in a Welsh woodland - plus a reading by author Kerri Andrews

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Sound Escape 215. Listen to spring birdsong along a country lane

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292. Talking big farming issues in a walk through a forgotten landscape in Leicestershire

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Sound Escape 214. Stand on an ancient bridge and listen to a clear stream flowing beneath

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291. Explore a rewilding project in Lincolnshire with artist Hannah Dale

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Sound Escape 213. The atmosphere of the Giant's Grave, an ancient burial mound in Wiltshire

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290. How being in the moment in nature can bring lasting happiness

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Sound Escape 212. A burst of early spring birdsong on a rare sunny day

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289. Discover the extraordinary magnetism of the Welsh Marches, with writer Mike Parker

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Sound Escape 211. Enjoy tawny owls calling in a woodland - recorded by author Polly Atkin

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288. A quest to explore the ancient burial mounds of the Marlborough Downs

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Sound Escape 210. The refreshing sound of rushing Dartmoor stream

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287. A wander on the Cornish coast with wildlife presenter and podcaster Gillian Burke

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Sound Escape 209. Be beguiled by a song thrush singing at dawn

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286. Music and magic on the Dorset coast with folk musicians Ninebarrow

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Sound Escape 208. Enjoy the restful pulse of waves crashing on a Cornish beach

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285. A quest to find a mysterious ruined tower on a forgotten hill in the Bannau

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Sound Escape 207. Be mesmerised the sound of thawing snow

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284. How to train your dog to behave perfectly around livestock and wildlife

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Sound Escape 206. Experience a landscape transformed by snow

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283. What lives in the wilds of Lancashire's Forest of Bowland?

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Sound Escape 205. A winter morning's walk through fields of frost

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282. Join the Plodcast team for a Big Garden Birdwatch

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Sound Escape 204. Sit beside a crackling wood fire in the depths of winter

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281. A quest to explore the mysteries of fog, with author Laura Pashby

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Sound Escape 203. Listen to the tides wash over the Gower shore

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280. A quest to find a Templar church lost in the Herefordshire countryside

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Sound Escape 202. Take a pause next to a farm in the heart of rural Wales

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279. Follow the Plodcast team as they climb a midwinter mountain to celebrate the New Year

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Sound Escape 201. Wander in a misty valley of ravens and sheep

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278. Join the the Plodcast Christmas Special and team quiz!

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Sound Escape 200. Be enchanted by the song of a Christmas stream

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277. Meet the women of the Wars of the Roses with novelist Annie Garthwaite

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Sound Escape 199. Listen to the soft patter of snowfall in a garden

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276. Explore an innovative Welsh farm where nature thrives alongside the livestock

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Sound Escape 198. A calming walk through fields of dewy grass

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275. What is the National Forest? Explore this magnificent project with historian Eleanor Barraclough

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Sound Escape 197. Listen to the amusing chatter of starlings in a farmyard

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274. A walk in Roald Dahl country with environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole

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Sound Escape 196. Be soothed by the rush and fall of waves on a rocky coast in Wales

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273. Discover how Empire shaped the British countryside with historian Corinne Fowler

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Sound Escape 195. Hear the eerie bellows of red deer stags during the autumn rut

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272. A wander in the Cambridgeshire Fens with ground-breaking broadcaster Catherine Carr

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Sound Escape 194. Enjoy the beguiling patterns of rainfall in a back garden

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271. A quest to go fishing on a lake where anglers are rarely allowed

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Sound Escape 193. Sit beside a waterfall in a once-bustling landscape reclaimed by nature

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270. Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn join the Plodcast to celebrate their new children's book

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Sound Escape 192. Relax to wind in the willows

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269. A wonderful walk and talk with Hamza Yassin

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Sound Escape 191. Sit for a while in a sunny valley of sheep and fungi

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268. Explore a haunted landscape of lost industry in Yorkshire with historian Eleanor Barraclough

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Sound Escape 190. Escape to a mountaintop among buzzards and ravens

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267. Join a Big River Watch to help save our waterways

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Sound Escape 189. Listen to life go by along a quiet country lane

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266. Take an early morning walk to explore a hillfort in the Bannau Brycheiniog

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Sound Escape 188. Sitting by the banks of a canal

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265. Meet wildlife ranger and TV presenter Ajay Tegala

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Sound Escape 187. Take a break next to a rushing Dartmoor stream

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264. Join the quest to return eagles to the skies of Wales

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Sound Escape 186. Listen to the tide rising over a saltmarsh in Carmarthen Bay

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263. A journey through the Highlands of Scotland

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Sound Escape 185. Be bewitched by the whispering leaves of aspen trees

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262. Explore the strange music within ponds with Alice Boyd

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Sound Escape 184. Relax to the rhythms of waves on the mysterious shores of the Severn Estuary

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261. Join the Plodcast team for a train ride out to a forgotten wilderness near Bristol

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Sound Escape 183. Delight in the last birdsong of the summer woodland

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260. We're on stage at the Global Birdfair with naturalist and geese fanatic Nick Acheson

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Sound Escape 182. Be mesmerised by the songs of yellowhammers

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259. Find lost artefacts on the River Thames with mudlarker Lara Maiklem

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Sound Escape 181. Take a moorland stroll among pipits and skylarks

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258. Spend the day in a summer meadow at glorious Wakehurst in Sussex

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Sound Escape 180. Be calmed by gentle rain on summer leaves

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257. A quest for beauty - and yellowhammer song - on a midsummer mountain

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Sound Escape 179. Chill to a lazy symphony of birdsong in a lakeside woodland

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256. One man's quest to drive back the dark woods with music

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Sound Escape 178. Relax in an overgrown churchyard on the mellowest of summer evenings

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255. A quest to explore the magic of flight with Lev Parikian

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Sound Escape 177. Sunlight and birdsong stream through a summer woodland

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254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker

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Sound Escape 176. Enjoy perky parakeets on a walk in Richmond Park

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253. Who is the Orchid Outlaw? And what is he up to in the wilds of Britain?

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Sound Escape 175. Spend dusk among the beechwoods of Hampshire

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252. What can you find to eat on an urban foraging adventure in Bristol?

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Sound Escape 174. Spend midsummer beside a chuckling river teeming with life

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251. Should we cull some animals to save others - asks Hugh Warwick?

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Sound Escape 173. Enjoy the sultry song of a blackbird at dusk

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250. Hear migrant birds as they arrive in the UK at Portland Bill in Dorset - with one very special visitor

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Sound Escape 172. Let the waves of Luskentyre Beach wash all stress away

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249. Welsh language and landscape with Julie Brominicks

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Sound Escape 171. Relax to the gorgeous melody of a willow warbler

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248. A quest for eagles on the Isle of Harris

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Sound Escape 170. A peaceful morning in the Devon countryside

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247. Explore Heal, an ambitious new rewilding project in Somerset

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Sound Escape 169. Relax to a song thrush singing by a beautiful stream

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246. A quest for greater access to the countryside for people with disabilities

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Sound Escape 168. A misty evening in a Lake District forest

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245. A quest to find wild boar in the Forest of Dean with author Chantal Lyons

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Sound Escape 167. Relax to the dusk chorus of birdsong deep in the Forest of Dean

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244. Enter the Golden Triangle in search of magical wild daffodils

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Sound Escape 166. Relax to a reading about nightingales from a new Countryfile book

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243. Embark on a pilgrimage to the River Thames with wild wanderer Phoebe Smith

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Sound Escape 165. A peaceful meditation among the geese at an ancient Welsh lake

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242. A quest to find spring wildlife on Sugar Loaf mountain

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Sound Escape 164. Take a mindful moment beside a rushing stream

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241. Welcome to spring on the Plodcast - and hear our new theme tune created by Blair Dunlop

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Sound Escape 163. Eerie soundscapes from inside a Roman amphitheatre

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240. In search of the water wolf - the mighty pike - with TV presenter Will Millard

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Sound Escape 162. Relax to an amazing chorus of toads recorded underwater

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239. Exploring Roman Silchester and discovering folk music with broadcasting legend Matthew Bannister

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Sound Escape 161. The satisfying crunch of footsteps on fresh snow

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238. A special night walk in Epping Forest to bring communities together

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Sound Escape 160. A gentle morning's chorus of birds in a leafy suburb

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237. Join the Plodcast team for a chat about rural issues and the best Plodcast listener recordings from the wild

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Sound Escape 159. Gorgeous woodland birdsong heralds the oncoming spring

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236. On the trail of a water dragon known as the 'Sussex Knucker'

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Sound Escape 158. The haunting cries of seals on a Norfolk beach

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235. A riverside walk with Wild Woman Philippa Forrester

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Sound Escape 157. The delicious patter of rain as you shelter inside

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234. Explore a desolate graveyard of ships on the River Severn

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Sound Escape 156. Melodies of a Welsh stream flowing under ice

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233. Uncovering mysteries in the Buckinghamshire village of Brill

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Sound Escape 155. Enjoy the music of melting icicles in the entrance to a cave

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232. Exploring a haunted ruined chapel lost in a Dorset woodland

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Sound Escape 154. Frosty footsteps on a bright and sunny midwinter morning

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231. A tale of bloody massacre in the peaceful Monmouthshire countryside

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Sound Escape 153. Bathe in stunning spring skylark song - all the way from New Zealand

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230. Enjoy a day's beachcombing on Orkney and learn local tales of the sea

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Sound Escape 152. Listen to the eerie calls of cranes on the Somerset Levels

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229. A gentle day's fishing with Will Millard and Kevin Parr on the Mon-Brec Canal

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Sound Escape 151. Walk beside a wild river tumbling from the hills

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228: Walk in the footsteps of soldiers in bloody combat on a Civil War battlefield near Bath

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Sound Escape 150: Be uplifted by a chorus of New Year's robins

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227: Tales of birding in wild places with naturalist and author Stephen Moss

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Sound Escape 149: Be soothed by the rhythms of the sea rising and falling in a remote Welsh cove

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226: Brace yourself for a wild nighttime swim under a full moon in the depths of winter

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Sound Escape 148: A morning of gulls and rooks on the Somerset Coast

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225: It's the Plodcast Christmas special - join the team for the Christmas quiz and other seasonal silliness

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Sound Escape 147: Be calmed by the autumn song of a Welsh mountain river

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224. A quest to see salmon leaping in a Welsh mountain stream

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Sound Escape 146: Revel in the crackle and murmur of an autumn night's party beside a bonfire

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223: Hear the mysterious tales of Orkney's might stone circle: The Ring of Brodgar

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Sound Escape 145: Let sea and birdsong transport you to a wild corner of Orkney

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222: Follow in the footsteps of St Patrick on the stunning coast of County Down

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Sound Escape 144: Relax to the crackle of falling beechnuts in an autumn woodland

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221: Experience a night walk in an ancient woodland in a forgotten corner of Gloucestershire

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Sound Escape 143: Be soothed by waves on pebbles in a small Scottish harbour

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220: Tales of ancient fossils and fossil hunters in Dorset

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Sound Escape 142: Listening to a storm outside while sitting indoors by the fire

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219: Meet Mark Beech – the new series editor of the Countryfile TV programme

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Sound Escape 141: Pause beside a roaring and refreshing mountain stream

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218: Spend an evening in the company of a deer stalker in southern England

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Sound Escape 140: The dreamy sound of the autumn meadow

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217: Hear the mysterious and magical songs of trees – with musician Tiny Leaves

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Sound Escape 139: Relax to the patterning of rain on autumn leaves

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216: Dark tales from a hillfort in deepest Herefordshire

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Sound Escape 138: Take a wander around a bustling harbourside

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