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.ourmediashop.com/bbc-countryfile-magazine-wmonx25
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Signup to Generate a PitchBBC 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 Subscribe to the print version of BBC Countryfile Magazine at
Recent episodes include "Sound Escape 297. Celebrate the song of an autumn river bathed in golden light" (30 October 2026, 19 minutes), "374. Discover how animals heal us with author Jay Griffiths" (27 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "Sound Escape 296. Listen to emerging birdlife next to a quiet pond" (23 October 2026, 10 minutes).
The Plodcast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 700 episodes.
Booking probability for The Plodcast is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Plodcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Plodcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Plodcast are Fitness, Golf & Recreation. The Plodcast has a science audience.
The Plodcast is a science podcast with 700 episodes published.
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The Plodcast
It's late afternoon and your riverside walk is bringing you gently towards home. From the west, a golden light floods the valley so you settle by the chuckling the water to immerse yourself in this fleeting moment of...
Episode #6
Animals play an enormous role in improving our lives – and healing us. Author Jay Griffiths reveals tales of extraordinary animals rescuing people and explores the many studies that show how pets calm and console us...
The Plodcast
As the human world just begins to stir, you gaze across a quaint pond. It’s teeming with life. But There’s no-one else around, just you, with robins for company. Listening closely, you pick out the distant cooings of a...
Episode #5
Adventurer Dave Hamilton has travelled widely across the UK to find some of its weirdest sites. This week, he joins Plodcast host Fergus Collins in the ex-industrial heartlands of South Wales to walk on one of the...
The Plodcast
You've woken up in a Scottish castle early enough to see the sunrise. It's going to be a crisp, clear morning. As the steam rises from your gently cooling tea, you watch a pheasant gathering his breakfast and a wood...
Episode #3
Enjoy a mellow, beautiful ramble with herbalist and healer Brigit Anna MacNeill and find gentle joy in the wild plants we find in our gardens, parks and hedgerows. Brigit offers Plodcast host Fergus Collins deep insight...
The Plodcast
After the rains, a mountain stream giggles once again. You pause beside it, marvelling that so tiny a flow should, over the years, have carved a deep cleft in the hillside that is home to gorse, rowans and stunted oaks...
Episode #2
Head out on an incredibly mindful, soothing – and rather wet – adventure at Budleigh Salterton estuary in Devon with celebrated ethno-botanical researcher Robin Harford. Robin has an astonishing knowledge of plants and...
The Plodcast
You follow a path through woods, high above a stream. There is wind high in the trees but you can hear falling water. Suddenly the path opens into a wide glade and find yourself beside high waterfalls tumbling into the...
Episode #1
The Plodcast celebrates the start of autumn with a visit to deepest Herefordshire to go foraging with expert Liz Knight. Liz extols the power of plants we tend to despise: docks, nettles and thistles and shares some...
The Plodcast
Recent rain has revived the woodland and you are compelled to take an evening walk in search of fungi along a stream and through the crunchy leaf litter. The strong, earthy scent of mushrooms fills the gloaming beneath...
Episode #69
Sometimes it's vital to take some time out and reconnect with nature and the present moment. The Sharpham Trust on the River Dart in Devon offers nature-based, mindful retreats at its beautiful 500-acre estate. As well...
The Plodcast
After months of heatwaves and drought, it's blissful to wander through a wooden valley listening to rain falling on leaves. And as if summoned by the falling water, a rare marsh tit makes its sneezing call.BBC...
Episode #68
The Plodcast heads to the Cotswolds this week in search of King Arthur. Historian and artist Amy Jeffs has written a new study exploring the earliest origins of the legendary king. Why was he so important to medieval...
The Plodcast
It's the morning after a storm on the island of Sark and you've followed a narrow track along a wooded valley that opens into a tiny cove. Taking shelter in a sea cave, you watch the animated waves roll onto the...
The Plodcast
On the crunchy parched grass of the Clifton Downs, you join the crowds gathering to witness the 2026 solar eclipse. As the atmosphere builds, people deploy eclipse glasses, colanders and home-made cardboard contraptions...
Episode #66
“A fulmar once vomited in my eye!” Writer and naturalist Stephen Rutt recalls his adventures following s raindrop from source to sea for his new book The Waterlands. This week's Plodcast host is Annabel Ross, who joins...
The Plodcast
There's nothing better on a hot afternoon than sitting in the cool of the reedbeds beside a lake. As you relax, wildlife emerges – waterbirds gossiping, bees and dragonflies buzzing and flitting, and curious plops and...
Episode #65
This week we welcome award-winning novelist and nature diarist Melissa Harrison to the Plodcast for the first time. Melissa's new novel, The Given World, is a dark and beautiful insight into the complexities of rural...
The Plodcast
Despite the endless drought, the river still runs. Reduced yes, but still a generous artery of life in a parched countryside. You sit beside it, cooled and reassured as numerous small birds: long-tailed tits, wrens and...
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historian specialising in the Middle Ages
Executive VP of Strategic Initiatives, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine
professional adventurer and bestselling author
CEO CCIB and CEO Europe & the Americas Standard Chartered, Red Moon Roleplaying
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