Podcast

In each episode of the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast, we go on a great escape into beautiful landscapes where we look for great wildlife, explore curious historic sites, meet interesting rural people and discuss the big issues affecting the countryside.

The podcast is available on Acast, iTunes, Apple Podcasts and most major podcast apps.

Season 9: Spring across Britain

Celebrate the sounds and sights of spring in our new series

Curlew in a wet meadow – Countryfile magazine podcast

New podcast series – episode 1: in search of spring curlews

Adam Henson in the Countryfile Magazine podcast

Springtime on the farm with Adam Henson

Lesser spotted woodpecker countryfile podcast

Spring in the saltmarsh and Celtic rainforest – plus an special encounter with our rarest woodpecker

Adder - Vipera berus

Explore the Dorset coast in search of adders and spring migrants

Somerset Levels in spring – Countryfile podcast

A quest for booming bitterns on the Avalon Marshes in Somerset

Brendan's Creek in the Countryfile podcast

Explore the spring wildlife of the Scottish island of Seil – with poet Kenneth Steven

Sunrise in an oak wood – BBC Countryfile podcast

Relax to the dawn chorus from a West Country oak wood

Smooth snakes on Dorset heaths – Countryfile podcast

A morning on the Dorset heaths in search of Britain’s rarest reptile

Cuckoo behaviour in Countryfile podcast

Discover the mysterious lives of cuckoos in a Cambridgeshire fen

Peak District Stream, William Clough, Countryfile podcast

Meet the wildlife of a beautiful, unspoilt stream in a Peak District valley

Search for the chequered skipper butterfly in Rockingham Forest, Countryfile podcast

Hunting for a rare butterfly in Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire

Lexy's loch in Assynt – Countryfile podcast episode 12, season 9

Take a boat onto a beautiful loch in Assynt in northern Scotland

Petroc Trelawny

A Yorkshire River Journey with Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny

Rob Penn on Bryn Arw Stump up for trees rewilding

Rewilding in the Black Mountains with woodsman Rob Penn

Season 8: The Wonders of Water

Severn bore in BBC Countryfile podcast the plodcast

A dramatic encounter with the Severn Bore on an atmospheric walk beside Britain’s longest river

A quest to find ancient holy wells in the Countryfile Podcast

Join a podcast quest to find an ancient holy well lost in the Welsh hills

Kingfisher by Somerset artist Lucy Pendrick

Spend a blissful, calming day by the river with a Somerset artist

Countryfile podcast at a Dorset lake with Kevin Parr

A cold and beautiful winter’s day by a Dorset lake in search of peace

Whirlpool in Countryfile podcast – Alamy

Wild waters and whirlpools of the Western Isles

Countryfile magazine podcast – floods in the Usk valley

Adventuring in floods and ice along the River Usk in Monmouthshire

River Goyt in BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

A ramble along Derbyshire’s River Goyt to talk wildlife, angling and local history

Folklore of seas and rivers in the countryfile podcast

Discover curious tales of folklore from Britain’s rivers and seas

European eel art – Countryfile podcast

In search of Britain’s most mysterious fish species

Mon-brec canal for Countryfile podcast

A soothing dawn walk with spring birdsong along a Brecon Beacons canal

Otter – countryfile magazine podcast

A delightful morning on a Devon river with wildlife photographer Jim Brown

Gower stream walk for the Countryfile podcast

A delightful wander along Gower stream to the sea – with a treasure hunt

Season 7: Late summer and autumn escapes

Adventures in the countryside – plus star interviews

A honey buzzard on the look out for wasps deep in a forest

Honey buzzards in Wales – episode one of a new season of Plodcasts!

Mya-Rose Craig joins Annabel Ross for a birding walk in North Somerset and talks about her Black to Nature campaign as well as her work spreading the environmental message to young people

Go birdwatching with the amazing Birdgirl in Somerset

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Interview with H is for Hawk author Helen MacDonald in the latest BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

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Discussing rewilding with rural commentator Rob Yorke in the Black Mountains – a new podcast

Spooky halloween tales in the countryfile podcast

New nature podcast – listen to folktales and old stories on a Halloween walk in Dorset

Simon Farnaby stars in the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

Ghosts star Simon Farnaby on his love of the countryside and his new book for children

Beachcombing on Menai Straits with Snowdonia behind – Countryfile podcast

Beachcombing and birdwatching on the Menai Straits in North Wales

Autumn foraging for food and home cures in the BBC Countryfile magazine podcast

Autumn foraging for free food and simple cures with a modern herbalist in Bristol

Countryfile podcast on Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire – RSPB farm manager Georgie Bray

Celebrating 20 years of the RSPB’s Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire

Illustrator Nick Hayes in the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

“We need more access to the countryside,” argues Nick Hayes

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Mackenzie Crook on his new Worzel Gummidge for Christmas in the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

Escape to the country presenter Jules Hudson is the star of episode 12 of the Countryfile magazine podcast

How to escape to the country and live the rural dream – a podcast with Jules Hudson

Christmas setting, decorated fireplace, fur tree

It’s the Christmas special podcast – join the team for a fireside chat

Season 6: Nature and countryside escapes in summertime

10 entertaining podcasts to make the most of midsummer

rabbits in spring on sugar loaf Abergavenny

Find rabbits, ravens and the stunning song of wood warblers in the Brecon Beacons

Isle of Seil – podcast for BBC Countryfile Magazine

Find peace and poetry on a Scottish island

Bluebells carpet the woodland in this Springtime scene, Getty

How wild farming is helping cuckoos and rare butterflies on Dartmoor

Ancient pathway in rural Dorset

On the trail of an assassin in the ancient holloways of Dorset

Discover the delights and mysteries of rural churches

Britain's strangest bird

An eerie evening with Britain’s strangest bird – the nightjar

Lucy Jones author of Losing Eden

Podcast: Finding a healthy mind, heart and body in nature

Magic and poetry of seil in the BBC Countryfile magazine podcast

Returning to the wild Hebridean island of Seil for poetry and oystercatchers

Candover Brook, BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

Explore the fascinating wildlife of a Hampshire chalk stream

Toads in BBC Countryfile magazine podcast series 6

Meet tremendous toads in an adventure on the River Usk in Monmouthshire

Season 5: Spring wonders to enjoy

12 podcasts to help you escape into the countryside

Monmouthshire, blorenge mountain

A gentle springtime stroll along a Monmouthshire stream

Sign welcoming visitors to The Community Farm near Bristol

Food and Recipes

Explore a brilliant community farm near Bristol

The Amateur Poacher book by Richard Jefferies

Explore the wilds of Wessex in the footsteps of a traditional countryside rogue

Plane tree on a Brecon Beacons path

Climb into the Brecon Beacons for a spring wildlife special

Dawn in the gentle hills of Dorset

A gentle nature ramble in rural Dorset – with a magnificent dawn chorus

Horner Wood image for spring BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

Journey into spring on Exmoor to meet Britain’s most exotic migrant birds

Sugar Loaf mountain in spring, viewed from the Deri

Walk with bluebells and cuckoos on Sugar Loaf in the Brecon Beacons

Foraging in a woodland in the Crew's Hole area of Bristol

Discover the medicinal powers of wildflowers and plants

Woz Andrew catches a brown trout on the River Tame

Walk the River Tame in Manchester to see a river restored to glorious life

Red squirrel for episode 10 of season 5 of the BBC Countryfile Magazine podcast

Delightful tales of red squirrels and house sparrows

A nightingale singing in spring

Nightingales at dawn in Dorset – magical, beautiful and moving

TV naturalist George McGavin by Lois Wendon

Take a hedgerow safari with TV naturalist Dr George McGavin

Season 4: Winter and early spring delights

Beach and cliff edge

Take a stunning clifftop walk along the Glamorgan Coast

Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) adult male walking in grass field, Suffolk, England, October. (Photo by: Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Should we eat more game?

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Fly fishing and natural history in the Peak District

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Escape to south Devon in the company of broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby

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On the trail of killer whales in Shetland

River at dawn

A watery search for the true source of the River Thames: part 1

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The quest to find the source of the Thames: part 2

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A delightful adventure searching for truffles deep in the woods

Threatening skies over the old stone church of Melangell

Take a pilgrimage to an ancient shrine in a remote Welsh valley

Corinne Pluchino, CNP

The battle to improve our national parks

Otter in shetland

Enjoy a marvellous otter adventure in Shetland

A peaty pool among the gorse and heather on Chobham Common, Surrey, early March. Woodlarks and dartford warblers abound

Celebrate spring with the glorious song of woodlarks

Season 3

Fish under water

Podcast: learn about river fish with film-maker Jack Perks on the Bristol Frome

Team of working Cob Horses

Can we manage our woodlands without machines? We head to the National Forest to find out

Ruined chapel in the countryside

Historic places

Become an archaeologist in the mountains of West Wales

Dam and countryside town

Meet the local vicar who saved the town of Whaley Bridge from a bursting dam

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Green woodworking in the National Forest

Brown bear

Meet ancient British species – bears, wolves, lynxes and wolverines in Bristol

Forest autumn UK

Learn bushcraft, tracking and survival skills in the National Forest

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A Cotswold ramble to discover how wind and solar could provide all of the UK’s energy needs

Forest in dappled light

Podcast: A mindful wander in the Forest of Dean – and an encounter with boar

Water and island

Spend an atmospheric night on a remote Shetland isle listening to seabirds

Garden and sculpture

Wander the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall with Tim Smit

River and moorland

Listen to the sounds of nature on a ramble along the River Usk

Season 2

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Podcast: Explore a mysterious ancient Wansdyke in Wiltshire – plus listen to stunning spring birdsong

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Podcast: Finding King Arthur’s Britain in the modern countryside

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How a lucky blind date led to a new life as a farmer

Hiker sitting enjoying the view on a hillside

Why our national parks need more wildlife

Nightingale in song

Searching for nightingales in Gloucestershire

BOSTON, MA - MAY 16: A basket filled by Tyler Akabane while foraging for garlic mustard and Japanese knotweed around Turtle Pond, near Enneking Parkway in Boston, is pictured on May 16, 2019. If you cant beat them, eat them. Thats the approach Forage is taking to invasive species, one of five major forces threatening around 1 million animal and plant species with extinction according to the United Nations. Earlier this month, the Cambridge eatery hosted its first Eat Your Invasives dinner, a multicourse feast featuring invasive species like garlic mustard, Japanese knotweed, and Asian carp. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Podcast: spring foraging in Monmouthshire with Adele Nozedar

Adele Nozedar, forager

Podcast: How to forage from field and hedgerow – part 2

Llangorse Lake and Crannog Island in morning mist, Llangorse, Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Podcast: a spring walk to explore the dark history of Llangorse Lake in the Brecon Beacons

Dave Willis - outdoors photographer

Podcast: How to take great outdoors photography