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

After climbing a few steps you're atop the sea wall and the vast skies and broad seascape of the Bristol Channel open before you. You're looking south from Wales across the water to Somerset and North Devon. It's eerily quiet with just a distant roar of water, a passing plane and ... Afficher plus

. 15min 54sec

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

Plodcast host Fergus heads to Cleobury Mortimer in deeply rural Shropshire to visit the Netherton Foundry. Here, Neil and Sue Currie and their team make beautiful spun-iron cookware using traditional skills and tools. And Fergus gets the chance to fashion frying pans from scratch ... Afficher plus

. 50min 24sec

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

A cold front has swept down from the north overnight but it's a bright morning over the frosty marshes. A breeze pushes ripples across a lagoon of deepest blue and then gently jostles the dead rushes and reeds. Nothing else stirs. BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a we ... Afficher plus

. 13min 9sec

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

Plodcast regular Kevin Parr joins host Fergus Collins for a charming mushroom hunting walk in a wooded Welsh valley. Along the way, as the foraging basket with treats, they discuss Kev's extraordinary new book, An Unnatural History of Britain – his series of epic quests in search ... Afficher plus

. 1h 0min restantes

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

After 36 hours of rain, the town floods and then the waters recede, surging down brooks such as this. You pause on a bridge above, hearing a stranger, bolder song in a stream you thought you knew so well. BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from t ... Afficher plus

. 13min 54sec