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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
Subscribe to the print version of BBC Countryfile Magazine at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/print/bbc-countryfile-magazine-subscription
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Sound Escape 179. Chill to a lazy symphony of birdsong in a lakeside woodland
The anglers have departed, the dog-walkers have gone home. The lake is still. You are alone by a strip of woodland on the edge of the water, listening to a gentle melodies of song thrush, blackcap and chiffchaff.
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Recorded by Fergus Collins, introduced by Hannah Tribe.
Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com
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256. One man's quest to drive back the dark woods with music
Head into the deep dark wood with composer and pianist Alexander Chapman Campbell to hear about his quest to raise awareness of the perils of conifer plantations – and their impact on wildlife, landscape and the human spirit.
Plodcast host Fergus Collins meets Alexander in one of Wales' larger conifer plantations, Hafren Forest in Powys, to talk about trees and listen to some of Alexander's music.
Where Now A Dark Wood Stands - composed by Alexander (Chapman Campbell), featuring Alexander at the piano and vocals by Julie Fowlis. Lyrics written by Alexander (Chapman Campbell), and translated into Scots Gaelic by Raghnaid Sandilands.
Beneath The Northern Stars - composed and performed by Alexander, from the album Journey To Nidaros.
The music video for Where Now A Dark Wood Stands can be viewed, and more of Alexander's work discovered, on his website: www.alexanderchapmancampbell.com
The Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 and the PPA Podcast of the Year 2022.
If you've enjoyed the plodcast, don't forget to leave likes and positive reviews.
Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to: theplodcast@countryfile.com.
If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team.
Produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. Music written and performed by Blair Dunlop.
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Sound Escape 178. Relax in an overgrown churchyard on the mellowest of summer evenings
It's evening, just after midsummer's day, and a walk has taken you down a winding lane to a tiny medieval church. In the churchyard, lichen-crusted gravestones emerge from what has been left to become a flower-filled meadow. Only a few goldfinches break the mellow stillness.
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Recorded by Fergus Collins, introduced by Hannah Tribe.
Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com
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255. A quest to explore the magic of flight with Lev Parikian
The Plodcast heads to the dreamy surrounds of Richmond Park in south-west London to discuss the wonders of flights with author and conductor Lev Parikian. Along the way, Lev and Plodcast host Fergus Collins encounter a host of examples of strange and exotic winged creatures.
Lev's book Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth is published by Elliott and Thompson
The music Lev mentioned in the Plodcast was:
Olivier Messiaen – Catalogue d'oiseaux
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus
Igor Stravinsky - Right of Spring
The Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 and the PPA Podcast of the Year 2022.
If you've enjoyed the plodcast, don't forget to leave likes and positive reviews.
Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to: theplodcast@countryfile.com.
If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team.
Produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. Music written and performed by Blair Dunlop.
Visit the Countryfile Magazine website: countryfile.com
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Sound Escape 177. Sunlight and birdsong stream through a summer woodland
Morning has broken. A wood pigeon coos its lazy welcome to summer, surrounded by a chorus of chaffinches, blackbirds, wrens and chiffchaffs. The new green leaves of June filter the sunlight into watery pools on the forest floor and the tall tree trunks create an acoustic effect of ancient columns and buttresses.
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Recorded by Caroline Greene, introduced by Hannah Tribe. Image by Getty
Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com
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254. Discover the magic of weeds with artist Anna Chapman Parker
Join an unusual Plodcast adventure in an urban car park with artist and author Anna Chapman Parker. Anna spent a year watching and drawing the wildflowers in her local town – plants normally dismissed as weeds. And she created an astonishing diary of overlooked beauty.
Here she take Plodcast host Fergus Collins an urban journey of discovery to open our eyes to the magic in every crack in the pavement.
Anna's book: Understorey: A Year Among Weeds is published by Duckworth Books.
The Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 and the PPA Podcast of the Year 2022.
If you've enjoyed the plodcast, don't forget to leave likes and positive reviews.
Contact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to: theplodcast@countryfile.com.
If your letter, email or message is read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team.
Produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. Music written and performed by Blair Dunlop.
Visit the Countryfile Magazine website: countryfile.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Customer Reviews
Brilliant but shame about the ads!
Lovely meditative podcasts replete with awesome descriptions and fascinating knowledge, but flanked by jarring ads that half ruin the experience. Sort it out!
Adverts
The beauty of the landscapes is marred by the adverts. Obviously I understand the need for adverts, but they spoil the content.
Sugar loaf episode
Lovely calming episode to listen to with all the various natural sounds & lovely to hear the raven talking to Fergus! I do enjoy the episodes where more natural sounds are involved