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  • 374. Discover how animals heal us with author Jay Griffiths

    374. Discover how animals heal us with author Jay Griffiths
    27 Oct 2026
    Animals play an enormous role in improving our lives – and healing us. Author Jay Griffiths reveals tales of extraordinary animals rescuing people and explores the many studies that show how pets calm and console us. She takes this week's Plodcast host Annabel Ross on a wonderful walk in Powys, mid Wales.. Jay's book, How Animals Heal Us is published by Hamish HamiltonNote, this episode was recorded over the summer so there are references to drought etc. Get in touch on Facebook! Search "BBC Countryfile Magazine - Plodcast Community" or join the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/countryfilemagazineplodcast/?ref=shareThe BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 & 2025 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. The Plodcast is produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. The theme tune was written and performed by Blair Dunlop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 dk.
  • Sound Escape 296. Listen to emerging birdlife next to a quiet pond

    Sound Escape 296. Listen to emerging birdlife next to a quiet pond
    23 Oct 2026
    As the human world just begins to stir, you gaze across a quaint pond. It’s teeming with life. But There’s no-one else around, just you, with robins for company. Listening closely, you pick out the distant cooings of a tawny owl.BBC Countryfile Magazine's Plodcast 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 Jack Bateman and introduced by Hannah Tribe.Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    10 dk.
  • 373. Britain is weird! We head for the strangest corners of the countryside with Dave Hamilton

    373. Britain is weird! We head for the strangest corners of the countryside with Dave Hamilton
    20 Oct 2026
    Adventurer Dave Hamilton has travelled widely across the UK to find some of its weirdest sites. This week, he joins Plodcast host Fergus Collins in the ex-industrial heartlands of South Wales to walk on one of the largest and strangest earth sculptures in Europe: Sultan the Pit Pony. It is a moving memorial to the thousands of ponies that worked in pitch black deep in the mines during the great 19th-century coal rush.Dave Hamiton's new book Weird Guide: 300 Curious Corners, Wild Wonders and Sublime Structures in published by Wild Things PublishingGet in touch on Facebook! Search "BBC Countryfile Magazine - Plodcast Community" or join the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/countryfilemagazineplodcast/?ref=shareThe BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 & 2025 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. The Plodcast is produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. The theme tune was written and performed by Blair Dunlop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    48 dk.
  • Sound Escape 295. Wake to the delightful chirpings of Scottish birdlife

    Sound Escape 295. Wake to the delightful chirpings of Scottish birdlife
    16 Oct 2026
     You've woken up in a Scottish castle early enough to see the sunrise. It's going to be a crisp, clear morning. As the steam rises from your gently cooling tea, you watch a pheasant gathering his breakfast and a wood pigeon sings in the day.BBC Countryfile Magazine's Plodcast 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 and introduced by Hannah Tribe.Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    11 dk.
  • 372. Learn about the delights of foraging and fermenting with Rachel de Thample

    372. Learn about the delights of foraging and fermenting with Rachel de Thample
    13 Oct 2026
    Join a foraging adventure on the Dorset coast with Rachel de Thample, searching for wild ingredients for her inspiring and health-giving fermenting recipes. From kombucha to kimchi, and sauerkraut to sloe olives, Rachel provides a wonderful insight into culinary delights that are simple to prepare and utterly delicious. But what's more, they help rewild our microbiome, helping our immune and digestive systems and can prevent serious illness. Plodcast host Fergus Collins joined Rachel on a clifftop quest.Rachel's new book is The Fermentation Year: Everyday Techniques and Recipes to Rewild Your Microbiome (Bloomsbury)Get in touch on Facebook! Search "BBC Countryfile Magazine - Plodcast Community" or join the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/countryfilemagazineplodcast/?ref=shareThe BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 & 2025 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. The Plodcast is produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. The theme tune was written and performed by Blair Dunlop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    58 dk.
  • Sound Escape 294. Gather your thoughts in a still, sunny woodland

    Sound Escape 294. Gather your thoughts in a still, sunny woodland
    9 Oct 2026
     You're on the edge of the Firth of Tay. It's a preternaturally still afternoon. You're deep inside the wood, but the leaves hardly rustle. Instead, the space between the trees is filled with bright sunlight and birdsong.BBC Countryfile Magazine's Plodcast 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 and introduced by Hannah Tribe.Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    12 dk.
  • 371. Finding healing wild plants on a walk with herbalist Brigit Anna MacNeill

    371. Finding healing wild plants on a walk with herbalist Brigit Anna MacNeill
    6 Oct 2026
    Enjoy a mellow, beautiful ramble with herbalist and healer Brigit Anna MacNeill and find gentle joy in the wild plants we find in our gardens, parks and hedgerows. Brigit offers Plodcast host Fergus Collins deep insight into the medicinal uses of common wayside wildflowers and why we should change our approach to the idea of 'weeds'.Beautiful, meditative and healing. Read Brigit's wonderful book The Wild Within, published by September booksGet in touch on Facebook! Search "BBC Countryfile Magazine - Plodcast Community" or join the discussion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/countryfilemagazineplodcast/?ref=shareThe BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast is the Publishers Podcast Awards Special Interest Podcast of the Year 2024 & 2025 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. The Plodcast is produced by Jack Bateman and Lewis Dobbs. The theme tune was written and performed by Blair Dunlop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 sa. ve 8 dk.
  • Sound Escape 293. Finding peace and gentle stream in a mountain cleft

    Sound Escape 293. Finding peace and gentle stream in a mountain cleft
    2 Oct 2026
    After the rains, a mountain stream giggles once again. You pause beside it, marvelling that so tiny a flow should, over the years, have carved a deep cleft in the hillside that is home to gorse, rowans and stunted oaks. A raven circles overhead, its croak almost as old as the hills.BBC Countryfile Magazine's Plodcast 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 and introduced by Hannah Tribe.Email the Plodcast team – and send your sound recordings of the countryside – to: theplodcast@countryfile.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    16 dk.