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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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Join intrepid folk duo Ninebarrow (Jon Whitley and Jay Labouchardiere) for a Plodcast wander over Ballard Down to Harry's Rocks on the coast of Dorset. Along the way, they sing and play some of their song to evoke landscape, nature and old legends. Pure, unmissable magic. See more of Ninebarrow on their Wandering Minstrels YouTube channel – and listen to their music on Spotify, Apple and other streaming services. The BBC Countryfile Magazine 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. 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
Previous episodes
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525 - 286. Music and magic on the Dorset coast with folk musicians Ninebarrow Tue, 18 Feb 2025
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524 - Sound Escape 208. Enjoy the restful pulse of waves crashing on a Cornish beach Fri, 14 Feb 2025
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523 - 285. A quest to find a mysterious ruined tower on a forgotten hill in the Bannau Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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522 - Sound Escape 207. Be mesmerised the sound of thawing snow Fri, 07 Feb 2025
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521 - 284. How to train your dog to behave perfectly around livestock and wildlife Tue, 04 Feb 2025
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520 - Sound Escape 206. Experience a landscape transformed by snow Fri, 31 Jan 2025
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519 - 283. What lives in the wilds of Lancashire's Forest of Bowland? Tue, 28 Jan 2025
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518 - Sound Escape 205. A winter morning's walk through fields of frost Fri, 24 Jan 2025
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517 - 282. Join the Plodcast team for a Big Garden Birdwatch Tue, 21 Jan 2025
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516 - Sound Escape 204. Sit beside a crackling wood fire in the depths of winter Fri, 17 Jan 2025
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515 - 281. A quest to explore the mysteries of fog, with author Laura Pashby Tue, 14 Jan 2025
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514 - Sound Escape 203. Listen to the tides wash over the Gower shore Fri, 10 Jan 2025
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513 - 280. A quest to find a Templar church lost in the Herefordshire countryside Tue, 07 Jan 2025
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512 - Sound Escape 202. Take a pause next to a farm in the heart of rural Wales Fri, 03 Jan 2025
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511 - 279. Follow the Plodcast team as they climb a midwinter mountain to celebrate the New Year Tue, 31 Dec 2024
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510 - Sound Escape 201. Wander in a misty valley of ravens and sheep Fri, 27 Dec 2024
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509 - 278. Join the the Plodcast Christmas Special and team quiz! Tue, 24 Dec 2024
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508 - Sound Escape 200. Be enchanted by the song of a Christmas stream Fri, 20 Dec 2024
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507 - 277. Meet the women of the Wars of the Roses with novelist Annie Garthwaite Tue, 17 Dec 2024
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506 - Sound Escape 199. Listen to the soft patter of snowfall in a garden Fri, 13 Dec 2024
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505 - 276. Explore an innovative Welsh farm where nature thrives alongside the livestock Tue, 10 Dec 2024
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504 - Sound Escape 198. A calming walk through fields of dewy grass Fri, 06 Dec 2024
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503 - 275. What is the National Forest? Explore this magnificent project with historian Eleanor Barraclough Tue, 03 Dec 2024
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502 - Sound Escape 197. Listen to the amusing chatter of starlings in a farmyard Fri, 29 Nov 2024
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501 - 274. A walk in Roald Dahl country with environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole Tue, 26 Nov 2024
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500 - Sound Escape 196. Be soothed by the rush and fall of waves on a rocky coast in Wales Fri, 22 Nov 2024
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499 - 273. Discover how Empire shaped the British countryside with historian Corinne Fowler Tue, 19 Nov 2024
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498 - Sound Escape 195. Hear the eerie bellows of red deer stags during the autumn rut Fri, 15 Nov 2024
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497 - 272. A wander in the Cambridgeshire Fens with ground-breaking broadcaster Catherine Carr Tue, 12 Nov 2024
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496 - Sound Escape 194. Enjoy the beguiling patterns of rainfall in a back garden Fri, 08 Nov 2024
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495 - 271. A quest to go fishing on a lake where anglers are rarely allowed Tue, 05 Nov 2024
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494 - Sound Escape 193. Sit beside a waterfall in a once-bustling landscape reclaimed by nature Fri, 01 Nov 2024
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493 - 270. Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn join the Plodcast to celebrate their new children's book Tue, 29 Oct 2024
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492 - Sound Escape 192. Relax to wind in the willows Fri, 25 Oct 2024
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491 - 269. A wonderful walk and talk with Hamza Yassin Tue, 22 Oct 2024
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490 - Sound Escape 191. Sit for a while in a sunny valley of sheep and fungi Fri, 18 Oct 2024
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489 - 268. Explore a haunted landscape of lost industry in Yorkshire with historian Eleanor Barraclough Tue, 15 Oct 2024
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488 - Sound Escape 190. Escape to a mountaintop among buzzards and ravens Fri, 11 Oct 2024
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487 - 267. Join a Big River Watch to help save our waterways Tue, 08 Oct 2024
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486 - Sound Escape 189. Listen to life go by along a quiet country lane Fri, 04 Oct 2024
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485 - 266. Take an early morning walk to explore a hillfort in the Bannau Brycheiniog Tue, 01 Oct 2024
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484 - Sound Escape 188. Sitting by the banks of a canal Fri, 27 Sep 2024
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483 - 265. Meet wildlife ranger and TV presenter Ajay Tegala Tue, 24 Sep 2024
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482 - Sound Escape 187. Take a break next to a rushing Dartmoor stream Fri, 20 Sep 2024
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481 - 264. Join the quest to return eagles to the skies of Wales Tue, 17 Sep 2024
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480 - Sound Escape 186. Listen to the tide rising over a saltmarsh in Carmarthen Bay Fri, 13 Sep 2024
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479 - 263. A journey through the Highlands of Scotland Tue, 10 Sep 2024
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478 - Sound Escape 185. Be bewitched by the whispering leaves of aspen trees Fri, 06 Sep 2024
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477 - 262. Explore the strange music within ponds with Alice Boyd Tue, 03 Sep 2024
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476 - Sound Escape 184. Relax to the rhythms of waves on the mysterious shores of the Severn Estuary Fri, 30 Aug 2024