The Plodcast

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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.

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April 13, 2021 Spring across Britain – a new season of delightful podcasts from BBC Countryfile Magazine
Welcome to season 9 of the BBC Countryfile Magazine Podcast. Your chance for a weekly escape into the wild and beautiful countryside.
Season 9 is our most ambitious project yet – capturing Spring Across Britain as it unfurls in 12 different wild landscapes.
From mountain to heath and coast to meadow, we’ll be sharing the joys of the new season with you and encountering some wonderful wildlife and marvellous people along the way. In this trailer, the podcast team get excited about the upcoming episodes and special guests.

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April 09, 2021 Sound Escape 8: the soothing rush of the incoming tide on a Gower beach
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes – your chance to relax into nature for a few precious moments. In this episode, it's late afternoon and we've arrived at a small cove on the South Gower coast to hear waves rising and falling on an empty beach. Recorded and presented by Hannah Tribe
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April 02, 2021 Sound Escape 7: a mistle thrush and friends greet a crisp March morning in a Gwent woodland
Welcome to BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes, beautiful short episodes of natural sound from the British countryside. They're your chance for a burst of wild freedom when you can't get out there yourself. In this episode, it's a crisp morning in mid March and we're sitting beside a dark pool in a pocket of ancient woodland called Goytre House Wood. Celandines and wild daffodils brighten the damp woodland floor while a male mistle thrush, great tits and wrens provide beautiful song. Presented by Hannah Tribe
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March 30, 2021 96. Enjoy a wild wander along a Gower stream to the sea – with a treasure hunt!
Follow a sparkling stream through a hidden valley on the Gower Peninsular in South Wales to arrive at a smuggler's cove. Along the way, the podcast team hunt for treasures in the stream, meet the local wildlife and encounter a very mysterious fish.
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March 26, 2021 Sound Escape 6: the gentle chatter of house sparrows and dunnocks in a Gower hedgerow
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, we’re pausing beside a hedgerow on the edge of a small field in Gower, South Wales. It’s a bitterly cold and overcast Sunday morning but the house sparrows and hedge sparrows (dunnocks) are busily chatting at the beginning of their nesting season.
So sit back and be transported into the delightful soundscapes of spring.
Recorded and presented by Hannah Tribe.

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March 23, 2021 95. A delightful morning on a Devon river with wildlife photographer Jim Brown
Storyteller Martin Maudsley meets wildlife photographer and countryman Jim Brown on Jim's local river, the Axe, which flows from Somerset into East Devon. They discuss otters, swans, folklore and farming – and the dedication wildlife photographers need to catch their quarry. Their delightful conversation is set against the bubbling backdrop of the Axe and its tributary, the Yatty. Otter image by Jim Brown
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March 19, 2021 Sound Escape 5: wandering along an ancient holloway in the Brecon Beacons
Welcome to the Countryfile Magazine Sound Escapes – your chance to spend a blissful five minutes in the countryside however busy you are. In this episode, ramble along an ancient track through a steeply banked holloway down into a wild valley. Enjoy the sounds of robins, song thrushes and wrens above the babble of a mountain stream.
Presented by Hannah Tribe

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March 16, 2021 94. A soothing walk at dawn along a Brecon Beacons canal – with gorgeous spring birdsong
Enjoy listening to the delightful songs of song thrushes, robins and treecreepers as we wander along the towpath of the Monmouth-Brecon canal high up in the Brecon Beacons. Listen out for an extremely early chiffchaff and encounters with narrowboats and a very strange duck
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March 12, 2021 Sound Escape 4: an evening chorus of birdsong on the River Avon near Bristol
Welcome to our latest Sound Escape, a chance to relax to the calming sounds of nature. In this episode, it is dusk on a flood-swollen River Avon on the outskirts of Bristol and the melodies of robins and song thrushes soothe the watery twilight. So sit back and be transported into the soundscapes of early spring. Recorded by Daniel Graham and presented by Hannah Tribe. Photo credit: Geograph
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March 09, 2021 93. A riverside wander in search of Britain's most mysterious fish – the eel
Annabel Ross wades through floodwater in the Severn Valley near Tewksbury to meet Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group and talk about the astonishing serpent-like eel and its still unexplained life story. We meet a traditional Severn Elver fisherman, hear a glorious eel poem by Hugh Dunkerley and cap it all off with folk singer Kitty Macfarlane's delightful song Glass Eel. Listen on for a perfect podcast.

Image by students of Plymouth University as part of the the Eel Suitcase project, which raises awareness of the plight of the European eel.

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FAQs about The Plodcast:

How many episodes does The Plodcast have?

The podcast currently has 630 episodes available.