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Open Country — 463 episodes

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1

Bluebird returns to Coniston

2

Wildlife Artists on Massingham Heath

3

Roadside Verges

4

Welsh Incident in Criccieth

5

Deer Stalking in Essex

6

Carrifran Wildwood

7

In Celebration of the Daffodil

8

Restoring Wallasea's Wild Coast

9

Stroudwater's missing mile

10

The Rock Houses of Staffordshire

11

Hedgerow havens

12

Savernake Forest

13

The Mourne Mountain Fires

14

Black Poplars: How to Save a Tree

15

The Stones of Snuff Mills

16

Fair Isle

17

The Menai Strait

18

Pingos and Pool Frogs

19

Exploring the Lakes by wheelchair

20

Aeolian harps on Wicken Fen

21

Flutterings on the Fleet

22

Shipshape and Bristol Fashion

23

Wild and Windy Fylde

24

The People's Forest

25

Time travel on Orkney

26

Shifting Sands of Sefton

27

Cornish Mining

28

These Debatable Lands

29

The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor

30

Night under the Stars

31

Aberaeron's Mackerel Festival

32

Wildlife Watching on Mull

33

Writing Wildness

34

Battery Rocks

35

Football Falcons Rookies and Rooks

36

The Sound of The Fens

37

Anneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in Suffolk

38

Wiltshire's white horses

39

Shivering Sands

40

Bats on Punts

41

Gibraltar Point

42

Mapping Britain's Holloways

43

Darwin's Childhood Garden

44

Diving Gannets and Raging Seas

45

Postal Paths and Corpse Roads

46

Britain’s deadliest footpath

47

Field notes from Mars

48

Tales from the Quoile Riverbank

49

Reed cutting at Cley

50

The changing river with Philippa Forrester

51

Mabel's mountain trip with hares

52

Return of the Derry Girl

53

Creative Island with Anneka Rice

54

Seeking asylum in nature

55

Music of the Gloucestershire landscape

56

Wintertide in Hartlepool

57

Unearthing the past at Vindolanda

58

Wilder London

59

Shaky Toun

60

Caves and Dragons: Pembrokeshire by Paddleboard

61

Mountain Rescue

62

Hutting

63

Felixstowe with Carolyn Quinn

64

Fieldnotes from Eternity

65

Stone Circles and Dark Skies in County Tyrone

66

Highlands with Horses

67

Sound and Light at Dungeness

68

Oban Cliff Mystery

69

The Isle of Man

70

Stories of Sea and Stone

71

The Maelor

72

Tiny's Cairn

73

Inspiration on the Tay

74

Wartime Secrets of Coleshill

75

Rhondda valley: a landscape of change

76

Chasing Jamie Allan

77

Herefordshire's Golden Valley

78

Lost Norfolk

79

Saving Our Wild Spaces

80

Seahenge

81

East Neuk of Fife

82

Winter Wonder in East Lothian

83

Folk on the Hills

84

Ulster Canal: the missing link?

85

St Just in Midwinter

86

Belfast's Alleyways and Orchards

87

The Mendip Hills

88

Rutland Water: What lies beneath?

89

Opening Up County Down

90

Matlock Bath Illuminations

91

The Mushroom Man

92

Tolkien Land

93

The Plock

94

Frampton Country Fair

95

Gedling Colliery: From Pit to Park

96

Beefeater Bend on the Tour de France

97

Cornwall with Helen Glover

98

Finding Balblair

99

Radical Essex

100

A new road for Kerrera

101

Uncharted Stories of the Causeway Coast

102

Aberystwyth Inspiration

103

The Search for Summer Snow

104

The Book, the Fish and the Dove

105

Cornwall’s Steam Heritage

106

Erland Cooper's Orkney

107

Bath Workhouse Burial Ground

108

The Wash

109

Mammoth Hunting on the Norfolk Coast

110

Husky Sledding in the Cairngorms

111

California's Giant Cousins

112

Goats on the Gun Batteries

113

Ancient Dartmoor

114

Classic Rock

115

Reflections and Connections

116

Bright lights and bees at Blenheim

117

The Wall

118

Wizards and steam trains on the West Highland Line

119

Memorial walks and woodlands

120

Kerdroya - The Cornish Labyrinth

121

A Tot of Rum

122

After Dark on the Brecon Beacons

123

Britain's Forgotten Rainforest

124

Until the land runs out

125

The right to paddle?

126

How to build and paint a bird nest

127

North Channel

128

A Fabric Landscape

129

People and Stone

130

Northumberland Sound Walk

131

Windsor Great Park

132

Journey to the Source of the Ancholme

133

Durham: Time and the Tides

134

Magnet Fishing

135

Rare British breeds and their owners

136

An Obsession with Forsythia

137

Dawn on the Sea Loch

138

Tales from the Black Mountains

139

Songs of England

140

Canna

141

Stormont Estate

142

Fisherwomen

143

Twelve months of Open Country

144

Julia Blackburn and the Suffolk coast

145

Windows

146

Snowdrop Country

147

Brett Westwood and Wyre Forest

148

Winter at Binevenagh

149

Frank Turner and the Meon Valley

150

The Lighthouse on the Headland of the Great Seas

151

Kitty Macfarlane and the Somerset Levels

152

Rediscovering Redesdale

153

Eilean Shona

154

New Land Owners, New Visions

155

The Sea

156

Gilbert White’s Selborne

157

The Bord Waalk of Amble

158

Ghost Ponds and Underwater Songs

159

Cleeve Common

160

Brett Westwood's Summer Nature Diary

161

Pete Waterman at Braunston Marina

162

The Great Spotted Woodpecker Quest

163

Green Pavements

164

Restoration in the Lake District

165

Dawn Walk

166

Ben Shieldaig

167

Landscapes in lockdown

168

Julie Walters on Warley Woods

169

Closed Country: Changing seasons

170

Closed Country: A Spring Audio-Diary with Brett Westwood

171

Birmingham Tree City of the World

172

The Music of the Surrey Hills

173

Small Fish - Big Project

174

Closed Country: Helen Glover in her Buckinghamshire back garden.

175

Halsway Manor

176

Tintagel

177

Ryebank Fields

178

The Chilterns - a new National Landscape?

179

Planting Trees to Save the Planet in Cumbria

180

Skateboarding in the Woods

181

In the Bleak Midwinter: Holst's Cotswolds

182

Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade

183

Painshill in Surrey - lost and found

184

The Secret Life of Pigeons

185

Witham Navigable Drains

186

Arnos Vale Cemetery

187

Community Resilience in Toppesfield

188

One Tree Hill

189

Folklore and Ghost Stories in Northumberland

190

Rick Stein's Cornwall

191

Jarvis Cocker's Edale

192

Darwin’s Landscape Laboratory

193

The Centre of the Earth

194

Southwell's Workhouse

195

The Isle of Eels

196

Inspiration On The Island of Jura

197

Rockfield Studios

198

Family Monsters Garden in Swaffham and Chelsea

199

Ulva - An Island for the People

200

Exercise Shallow Grave

201

Sussex Weald Ironworking

202

Stonehenge and its community

203

George Eliot Country

204

Changing Tides at Morecambe Bay

205

Surfing on Scotland’s North Coast

206

The Pub at the End of Easdale

207

The Changing Thetford Forest

208

The Strawberry Line Community

209

Reservoirs and lost villages

210

Moorland on the mend

211

Leicester’s hidden gem - Bradgate Park - bought for the locals, but where’s all the archive?

212

Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh

213

Life on the canals at Foxton Locks

214

Ash to Ash

215

The Suffolk Maharajah

216

Herodsfoot, Thankful Village

217

The Windermere Boys

218

Liverpool Giants

219

The Malvern Hills

220

Childhood Holidays in Pembrokeshire

221

Purton Hulks

222

The First Lundy Marathon

223

The Boat Builders of Pin Mill

224

The Great Exhibition of the North

225

Humphry Repton and his Red Books

226

Gertrude Jekyll at 175

227

Swansea Copper and Choir

228

Inspired by flowers, Lincolnshire

229

Young people and landscape, Doncaster

230

Coventry Edgelands

231

The Isle of Gigha

232

Konnie Huq goes back to Kew Gardens

233

Wild Cats in the Highlands

234

Finding Fossils on the Jurassic Coast

235

Torridge and Taw, North Devon

236

Rewilding at Knepp Castle

237

Red Squirrels in Formby

238

Visions of Birmingham

239

Border Country

240

Serpentine on the Lizard, Cornwall

241

Bell-ringing in Devon

242

Climbing High Pike with Sir Chris Bonington

243

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

244

Tughall Mill, Northumberland

245

The Gardens at Glyndebourne

246

The Brecks - East Anglia's Secret

247

Huw Stephens at Green Man Festival

248

Ballooning in Bristol

249

Eliza Carthy in Robin Hood's Bay

250

Lincolnshire Bike Night

251

Loch Tay and Ben Lawers

252

The Dark Side of the Lune

253

BBC Monitoring at Caversham

254

Wimbledon

255

Stonehenge and Mental Health

256

Lough Neagh

257

Blencathra: The People's Mountain

258

The Future of Sherwood Forest

259

Skiving at Poverty Bottom, Newhaven

260

Learning from the Wild in Dartington

261

The Mildenhall Treasure

262

Underground Bristol

263

London: A National Park City?

264

Barton-upon-Humber Clay Pits

265

Winter Solstice at Newgrange

266

Wordsworth's County Remade

267

Whitelee Windfarm on Eaglesham Moor

268

Belvoir Castle and its 'Capability' Brown Landscape

269

Sathnam Sanghera goes home to Wolverhampton

270

David Lindo on the Isle of Man

271

Snowdonia Marathon

272

Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean

273

Off Grid in Mid-Wales

274

Bellaghy - Seamus Heaney's Homeplace

275

Hoylake: Green Belt and Greens

276

Helen Baxendale visits Belper in Derbyshire

277

Spurn Point Lifeboat Station

278

The 'Man Engine' in Cornwall's mining landscape

279

Orkney Wildlife in Crisis

280

Capability Brown at 300

281

Biodiversity at Heathrow

282

The Dolphins of Cardigan Bay

283

Bishop Auckland, History in Production

284

Midsummer Music in Orkney

285

Dawn Chorus across Europe

286

Tennyson's Lincolnshire

287

Southwell Races, Nottinghamshire

288

The National Forest: 25 Years

289

Old Oswestry Hillfort

290

Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys

291

Welsh Valleys after Coal

292

Return to the Fens

293

Scowles in the Forest of Dean

294

Somerset Peat: Past, Present and Future

295

Yorkshire in the Dark

296

River Tay

297

The Northern Lights at Christmas

298

Lincolnshire Coast Revival

299

Pendle Hill, Lancashire

300

Prehistoric Gower

301

Tollesbury Wick in Essex

302

Big Chill in Llanthony

303

The Peak District

304

The Glenfinnan Gathering

305

Cornish Alps

306

Jersey Shores

307

Thomas Hardy's Dorset

308

Rathlin Island

309

The North Antrim Coast

310

Ospreys in Cumbria

311

Celebrating Golowan in Cornwall

312

The Lengthsman with Antony Gormley

313

The ancient sport of hound trailing in Cumbria

314

Landscape Art in Northumberland

315

The Solway Shore

316

The Hoo Peninsula

317

CS Lewis Nature Reserve, Oxfordshire

318

Shetland

319

Churchill's Chartwell in Kent

320

The Ring of Gullion

321

The Purbeck Clay Mines

322

Wiltshire Wellbeing Group

323

Suffolk Coast

324

Dart Estuary

325

Christmas Trees at Castle Howard

326

Nature Reserves in Cumbria

327

Belfast Hills

328

Brownsea Island, Dorset

329

Steart Peninsula, Somerset

330

Lee Valley

331

Orchards in Herefordshire

332

Elmley Nature Reserve

333

Dennis Potter and the Forest of Dean

334

The John Muir Way

335

The Needles, Isle of Wight

336

Cheshire Salt

337

Chalk Streams

338

The Bournville Legacy

339

Slate Mines, Snowdonia

340

Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire

341

Hafod, Mid Wales

342

Rural Murals in Dumfries and Galloway

343

Tour de Yorkshire

344

Life on Coquet Island

345

Brooklands Racetrack

346

The Avon Gorge, Bristol

347

Walking on Water, Isles of Scilly

348

Heritage Cotton Mills, Derbyshire

349

Brecon Beacons, Waterfall Country

350

British Raj in the Peak District

351

Chelford Cattle Market

352

Common Ground, Dorset

353

Adlestrop

354

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage

355

Falkland Centre for Stewardship

356

Strangford Lough

357

The Legacy of Flodden Field

358

Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire

359

Royal Haslar Hospital

360

Shropshire Union Canal

361

Romney Marsh

362

The Birds of Lindisfarne

363

Moseley Bog

364

Geocaching in Salcey Forest

365

Restoring Mountsorrel's Long Forgotten Railway

366

Celebrating the Plum

367

Laurie Lee Land

368

Beer Quarry Caves

369

Skiffs on Loch Broom

370

The Ants of Longshaw Estate

371

Crossing the Forth

372

Salisbury Plain

373

A World in a Woodland

374

Herriot Country

375

Teifi Valley

376

A Tale of Three Piers

377

Highland Ponies

378

Cannock Chase

379

The Minack Coast

380

Fens of Cambridgeshire

381

Lyme Regis

382

Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire

383

Springtime in Galloway

384

Nuns of Yorkshire

385

Inishowen

386

Johnsons Island

387

Memories of the Black Isle

388

Marshes of Norfolk

389

Heritage at Risk - West Midlands

390

Hastings: The Shingle Fleet

391

Finding Neverland

392

Christmas in Norfolk

393

The Canal That Never Was

394

Beasts of Brighton

395

Atlantic College at 50

396

Snowdonia

397

Hicks Lodge/National Forest

398

Moray Firth

399

Isle of Bute

400

Ireland - Peat

401

Lughnasa Festival

402

Urban Wildlife

403

White Cliffs of Dover

404

Hampstead Heath Ponds

405

12/07/2012

406

Eels

407

Devon Farm Vet

408

Northamptonshire Inspiration

409

Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

410

Herefordshire Churches

411

Drought

412

29/03/2012

413

22/03/2012

414

02/02/2012

415

26/01/2012

416

19/01/2012

417

Olympics

418

Knockando Woolmill

419

29/12/2011

420

22/12/2011

421

Snowdonia: Search and Rescue Dog Association

422

Lancashire: Shale Gas

423

03/12/2011

424

24/11/2011

425

17/11/2011

426

10/11/2011

427

Horseback UK

428

The Dark Peaks

429

Heather Moorland

430

Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners

431

The Devil's Beeftub

432

Island Revival

433

13/08/2011

434

06/08/2011

435

30/07/2011

436

Northumberlandia

437

The South Downs - An Inspirational Landscape

438

Trailblaze on the South Downs

439

Hay Meadows

440

Foot and Mouth - Ten Years On

441

Welsh Highland Railway

442

Mingulay

443

Herefordshire film

444

Sherwood Forest

445

Durham Heritage Coast

446

Edgelands

447

Death on the Moors

448

Weather in Wiltshire

449

Portbury Wharf

450

Yurts

451

High Speed Rail

452

River Thames

453

Mistletoe

454

18/12/2010

455

Wildlife Crime

456

Lighthouse

457

Ardtornish

458

New Forest Mushrooms

459

Ayrshire

460

Resistance

461

Pluckley: The Most Haunted Village in Britain

462

Leeds-Liverpool Canal

463

Conservation Grazing in Cornwall