CountrySlide

We share a whole host of suggestions on where to get your worldly news from, after spending the first half of the show sharing our own news...

Callum's been making sacrifices for his children but on the plus side got to eat donuts and ice cream before hunting for fossils.
Richard N finally has more to talk about than hedgelaying and visited an excellent restaurant in Lambeth.
Richard P has just about recovered after a week of mini digger hire shenanigans and improving some old drainage ditches for wildlife.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


If you would like to get in touch with your fossil finds, interesting walls or reliable news outlets, you can email us at: [email protected]

Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Crinkle Crankle walls
- The Farmers Weekly podcast
- Mr Charcoal
- Negus' book tour dates can be found here

- Financial Times
- Real News No Bullshit
- The Times, The Critic, Scribehound

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

We delve into two hot topics this week - is there such a thing as British Country music and Turtle Dove season is here. As you no doubt expect, we get a little sidetracked along the way by topics like drill music, the jellyfish song, David Bellamy, foraging law (again), interesting bird sightings and the usual anecdotes and book talk.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


If you would like to get in touch with your British Country music suggestions or connections, you can email us at: [email protected]

Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Callum's TikTok claim to fame
- The Spotify Playlist
- Negus' book tour dates can be found here

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

There was a plan for the episode this week, it involved everyone bring a little bit of something along to talk about. It ended up with a long ramble which included each little thing at some point along the journey.

Expect to hear about staircase lining parties, Aldi drinks, port cocktails, technical issues, massive trees, foraging in spring, attack hawks, fashion choices, illegal foraging, who should be in the cabinet next, and cats....

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


If you would like to get in touch to report your sightings, you can email us at: [email protected]

Links
- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Hawthorn - the tree of sex and death (on Scribehound)
- The Hormonal Hawk
- The Bradgate Park incident

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

Being a parent and raising children is a minefield in so many ways, Richard Negus and Callum talk about some of the highs and lows they've experienced whilst being dads in the countryside. Expect tales including snail racing in the rain, falling into streams, learning bad language and being shown dodgy videos. All whilst embracing and being embraced by the countryside and rural communities.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


If you would like to get in touch with your stories of disastrous outings or small miracles, you can email us at: [email protected]

Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

Mike Warner from 'A Passion for Seafood' is our guest this week on CountrySlide. Expect to hear about the positive state of UK fisheries, the less positive facts about what we export and import (the 'fresh' fish you enjoy on holiday might actually have made the same journey as you) and why we don't eat as much fish as we once did.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website

- Mike Warner's website, Instagram, YouTube
- Shellfish association of Great Britain
- @Floffal

If you would like to get in touch, you can email us at: [email protected]

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website

Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

An episode of twists and turns as Richard Negus recounts the talks from the GWCT Game Conference, Richard Prideaux describes an information gathering trip to learn about Biochar and Callum tells a tale of protecting a man's plums from an old deer.

Our Guest next week is Mike Warner from A Passion for Seafood - if you have any questions then feel free to send them in and we'll fit in what we can.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- GWCT
- Small Woods Association

If you have compared this podcast to a television show (or film), have a story that you would like to share, or would simply like to get in touch to tell us to quit whilst we're ahead, you can email us at: [email protected]

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

The people at Brunos Bows got in touch with a special offer - use COUNTRYSLIDE for 50% off you order.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

After last week's rather sensible episode, the guys are back in their respective seats to shake everything back to normal. After several short detours into green children, stealing wood for carving, Stephen Fry, Orford Ness, and stolen drugs....eventually we reach the main topic of clubs and societies in rural communities - all inspired by a recent casting call and speaking gig.


CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Froize restaurant
- Green Children of Woolpit
- Orford Ness
- Richard Negus on Come Dine with Me


If you have issues with your drains or a habit of stumbling across green children, or would simply like to get in touch, you can email us at: [email protected]

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

Producer Amy, Clare Negus and Angharad (director of Hadleigh Show) take the lead on this weeks episode in honour of International Women's Day on 8th March.

Richard asks some insightful questions about being a woman in the countryside, rural life from a different point of view and the possible isolation. Expect ramblings of a different kind as the three ladies talk about the potential problems with women-only groups, cloaks of invisibility and growing up in a time and place where adventures were encouraged.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Donate to Clare's Macmillan Mighty Hike
- Farming Community Network
- Hadleigh Show
- Clare's Instagram for beautiful pottery
- Amy's Instagram for a mixture of content about wild food, conservation and habitat management


If you would like to get in touch, you can message us through patreon, comment on this post or email us at: [email protected]

The Usual Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

Let's be honest, once in a while it's best to just let people run with what springs to mind, particularly these three people.

Beware, this episode may lead to coffee on your keyboard, swerving tractors or people giving you strange looks on the bus. In a nut shell this is an episode about rural life, with a few real-life experiences thrown in along the way. Be prepared for your heart to be warmed, and your sides split.

CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- CountrySlide website
- Richard Prideaux's article about River Cottage
- Richard Mabey's Flora Brittanica on Amazon (can also be found elsewhere)
- Jack Hargreaves episodes on YouTube


If you have a story about inadvertently ingesting something rural, or being singled out by corvids, or would simply like to get in touch, you can email us at: [email protected]

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.

This weeks episode is a long one, with Callum McInerney-Riley on the road to scotland it is left to the two Richards to interview our fantastic guest - Andy Dodson.

Andy is not only from a long line of thatchers, but he is also a lecturer and currently studying to become a doctor of reeds (AKA Reedbed management)! The three discuss everything from reedbed conservation, the importance of the reedbed habitat to Bittern and other wildlife, lack of management in the UK, exotic reed, Andy's less good looking brother Chris, the endangered craft and hard job of reed cutting and so much more.


CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation and life in the British countryside.


Show Notes and Links

- Subscribe on Patreon for extra content (you can cancel at any time)
- If you enjoy what we do, consider a one-off tip 
- Andy Dodson on X  and LinkedIn
- Chris Dodson's linkedin post of overlayering - well worth a look!


If you would like to get in touch, you can email us at: [email protected]

The Hosts

Richard Negus website
Callum McInerney-Riley website
Richard Prideaux website


Edited and Produced by Amy Green for Rural and Outdoor.

DISCLAIMER
Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.