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Open Country
Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles
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4.4 stars from 325 ratings
Mountain Rescue
Anyone who is traveling into the back country? Should listen to this if they do not know about the 10 essentials and hiking safety. Thank you to all the volunteers who are involved in certain rescue. Thankfully, I haven’t needed to be rescued… Yet! You are true heroes.
Klingrid via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/16/23
Open Country
Why is this podcast not updated when it is fully up to date on the BBC Sounds app?
ceeebeeebee via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 08/26/21
As a lover of nature and the countryside as well as a passionate supporter of British food and farming, this podcast is just perfect listening. They cover a huge range of topics and without exception every programme is relevant, informative, interesting and well presented. I always smile when I...Read full review »
Little Bevie B via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 08/03/21
Recent Episodes
Up until the 1970s, postmen and women in rural areas walked their delivery rounds - taking routes through the hills dubbed "postal paths". Some routes, and fragments of others, still survive today. In this programme Helen Mark explores one of them, near the village of Shap in Cumbria, with author...
Published 04/18/24
Published 04/18/24
The Broomway has been dubbed the “deadliest footpath in Britain”, claiming more than a hundred lives. Helen Mark takes a cautious walk along this treacherous Essex seapath with Peter Carr and John Burroughs from the Foulness Island Heritage Centre. She’ll hear how people can easily become...
Published 04/11/24
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