Open Country

by BBC Radio 4
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Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

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Recent Episodes
  • Postal Paths and Corpse Roads
    Apr 18, 2024 – 24:36
  • Britain’s deadliest footpath
    Apr 11, 2024 – 24:29
  • Field notes from Mars
    Apr 4, 2024 – 24:27
  • Tales from the Quoile Riverbank
    Feb 9, 2024 – 24:39
  • Reed cutting at Cley
    Feb 2, 2024 – 24:33
  • The changing river with Philippa Forrester
    Jan 25, 2024 – 24:31
  • Mabel's mountain trip with hares
    Jan 18, 2024 – 24:01
  • Return of the Derry Girl
    Jan 18, 2024 – 24:06
  • Creative Island with Anneka Rice
    Jan 4, 2024 – 24:18
  • Seeking asylum in nature
    Dec 28, 2023 – 24:29
  • Music of the Gloucestershire landscape
    Dec 21, 2023 – 24:18
  • Wintertide in Hartlepool
    Dec 20, 2023 – 24:27
  • Unearthing the past at Vindolanda
    Dec 8, 2023 – 24:14
  • Wilder London
    Nov 30, 2023 – 24:42
  • Shaky Toun
    Nov 23, 2023 – 24:30
  • Caves and Dragons: Pembrokeshire by Paddleboard
    Nov 16, 2023 – 24:16
  • Mountain Rescue
    Nov 16, 2023 – 24:39
  • Hutting
    Nov 2, 2023 – 24:39
  • Felixstowe with Carolyn Quinn
    Sep 14, 2023 – 24:20
  • Fieldnotes from Eternity
    Sep 7, 2023 – 24:18
  • Stone Circles and Dark Skies in County Tyrone
    Aug 31, 2023 – 24:24
  • Highlands with Horses
    Aug 24, 2023 – 24:09
  • Sound and Light at Dungeness
    Aug 17, 2023 – 24:40
  • Oban Cliff Mystery
    Aug 10, 2023 – 23:55
  • The Isle of Man
    Aug 3, 2023 – 24:38
  • Stories of Sea and Stone
    Jul 27, 2023 – 24:19
  • The Maelor
    Jul 20, 2023 – 23:52
  • Tiny's Cairn
    Jul 13, 2023 – 24:01
  • Inspiration on the Tay
    Jul 6, 2023 – 24:19
  • Wartime Secrets of Coleshill
    May 11, 2023 – 24:21
  • Rhondda valley: a landscape of change
    May 4, 2023 – 24:40
  • Chasing Jamie Allan
    Apr 27, 2023 – 24:41
  • Herefordshire's Golden Valley
    Apr 25, 2023 – 24:20
  • Lost Norfolk
    Apr 13, 2023 – 24:19
  • Saving Our Wild Spaces
    Apr 6, 2023 – 24:17
  • Seahenge
    Jan 26, 2023 – 24:15
  • East Neuk of Fife
    Jan 23, 2023 – 48:38
  • Winter Wonder in East Lothian
    Jan 12, 2023 – 25:12
  • Folk on the Hills
    Jan 5, 2023 – 24:21
  • Ulster Canal: the missing link?
    Dec 29, 2022 – 24:37
  • St Just in Midwinter
    Dec 22, 2022 – 24:29
  • Belfast's Alleyways and Orchards
    Dec 15, 2022 – 24:36
  • The Mendip Hills
    Dec 8, 2022 – 24:42
  • Rutland Water: What lies beneath?
    Dec 6, 2022 – 28:45
  • Opening Up County Down
    Dec 1, 2022 – 24:40
  • Matlock Bath Illuminations
    Nov 17, 2022 – 24:33
  • The Mushroom Man
    Nov 10, 2022 – 23:59
  • Tolkien Land
    Nov 7, 2022 – 24:04
  • The Plock
    Oct 27, 2022 – 24:09
  • Frampton Country Fair
    Oct 20, 2022 – 24:06
Recent Reviews
  • Klingrid
    Mountain Rescue
    Anyone who is traveling into the back country? Should listen to this if they do not know about the 10 essentials and hiking safety. Thank you to all the volunteers who are involved in certain rescue. Thankfully, I haven’t needed to be rescued… Yet! You are true heroes.
  • Imidurski
    I wonderful way to travel about Britain without leaving
    I visited England when I was a teen and especially now with COVID-19 and travel restrictions, I don’t know when I will ever get a chance to come back. Listening to Open Country lets me travel without leaving home, visiting many places off the beaten path . I live it! BBC4 has the best programs-we have nothing like this in the USA. Thank you for radio programs like this!
  • Chandler's Lost Pony
    A great insight into the countryside
    Despite not being able see their location, the presenters of this show really do an amazing job taking you to all the places they visit.
  • verydissapointed9999
    A little tip for listening to this podcast.
    I love listening to Open Country, while walking the location of topic using Street View on Google maps. It’s almost like your there.
  • The Alaska Rambler
    To my fellow Ramblers
    I listen to the podcast, on my area walks, it provides me with a dreamlike insight to other areas and groups.
  • Tillytule
    You're gonna LOVE this!
    I love this podcast. Such a variety of locations, topics, all surrounding walks or hikes in Britain. I really must get a British Atlas. Give this a try, if you enjoy all things British, you'll enjoy this. Very well done.
  • crochetster
    Love it!
    This is one of my favorite podcasts. Always informative and entertaining.
  • newbiedoo
    Very enjoyable
    I just discovered this podcast and am really enjoying it. I've always wanted to do a walking tour in England, so this allows me some genuine insight into what these areas are like. Informative and real, not just some cutie-pie version of rural England.
  • kopite8
    Amazing!
    Give it a chance, one of my favorite podcast.
  • swingin old town
    lost in the city
    I live just down the river from Washington D.C.but for most of the 70's was lucky enough to live in Arundel, West Sussex. I loved to go on long walks on the South Downs, and never stopped being amazed at the public access given walkers So hearing these podcasts has inspired me to get back over to the UK and start tackling some of the most beautiful walking trails in the world. I look forward to the weekly podcasts and listen to them on my commute, or whenever I start to pine for the countryside. please keep more of these coming, and Claire, you've got one of the great jobs out there.
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