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Voices of the Countryside — 52 episodes

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1

Charlie Jacoby: Might Hunters and Hawkers be a Protected Group Under the Equality Act? [6 min Listen]

2

Charlie Flindt - Tigger the Terracan: From Farm Workhorse to Retirement Riddle [11 min listen]

3

Camilla Swift - A Year in the Life of a Huntsman - and a foxhound [8 min listen]

4

Simon Reinhold - Into the Wild: Quail Hunts, Verdant Valleys, and Hidden Graves [7 min listen]

5

Patrick Laurie - The Glorious Twelfth - the new season is here [8 min listen]

6

Richard Negus: Crafting a Future - The Need for Rural Apprenticeships [9 min listen]

7

Jonathan Young - My Bid for Olympic Gold [7 min listen]

8

Beyond the Hedge: How Can we Engage Young People in the Countryside?

9

Andy Ford: A Rum Diary (or Why Cricket and Fishing are the Same) [21 min listent]

10

Emily Graham: Stories from the Moors - the Good, the Bad, and the Fluffy [10 min listen]

11

Owen Williams: Give power back to farmers - the solution to Britain's nature and climate crises [16 min listen]

12

Pete McLeod: Ghillies vs Fishing Guides - Deciphering Roles [9 min listen]

13

Ian Coghill: Rewilding - a Great Tool but a Dangerous Religion [20 min listen]

14

Mark Firth: The Rural Roots of Olympic Glory With a Side of Old-Fashioned Manners [3 min listen]

15

Francis Fulford: Revolutionising House Building - Timber Frame vs Traditional Methods [7 min listen]

16

Giles Catchpole: Decoying Pigeons Sucks - Here's Why [9 min listen]

17

Roger Morgan-Grenville - Five Minutes in Heaven: Swifts Return to my Garden

18

Sam Carlisle - From First Fish to Global Conflict: What's Really Changed in 30 Years of Salmon Conservation??

19

Guy Adams - One Man Went to Mow: An Idiot's Guide to Meadow-making

20

Richard Negus: Mink Hunting: A Father's Legacy Passed Down

21

Andy Ford: The Lynx Effect - Conservation, Rewidling and Land Reform by Stealth

22

Beyond the Hedge: Hunting, Nature Restoration and the Power of Stories

23

George Browne: Clarkson Was Right - We Should Put Teenagers to Work on Farms

24

Simon Reinhold: The Lost Art of the Walking Gun [9 min listen]

25

Zoe Colville: Farming Glastonbury & Regen Cults: A Look Inside [9 min listen]

26

Claire Taylor: How the BBC shaped my path in farming journalism [8 min listen]

27

Jamie Blackett: Preserving Family Farms: Countering the Threat Posed by Starmer. [15 min listen]

28

Ian Coghill: The RSPB's Intimate Ties to the UK's Water Firms [11 min listen]

29

Emily Graham: The Countryside Needs Commercial Shoots but They Must Adapt [13 min listen]

30

Francis Fulford: Carbon Capture Comes to Rewilding [7 min listen]

31

Mark Firth: The Fragile Beauty of Our Chalkstreams is Under Threat [6 min listen]

32

Beyond the Hedge - When the Government Banned Cheese and How the Industry Bounced Back

33

Jonathan Young - Bagging a Macnab: the ultimate and very affordable challenge [6 min listen]

34

Pete McLeod: After the Mayfly: Taking on the Challenge of Educated Trout [7 min listen]

35

Owen Williams: Blessed are the Treeplanters [20 min listen]

36

Roger Morgan-Grenville: From Doom to Dreams: The Five Types of Nature Writing [9 min listen]

37

Sam Carlisle: Kill a Salmon, Close a River: Norway's Pain Must be a Lesson [10 min listen]

38

George Browne: The Art of the Bodge - Rural Problem Solving at its Finest [9 min listen]

39

Charlie Jacoby: What are we to Expect for our Wildlife from the Labour Government? [15 min listen]

40

"Pigeons Cost Farmers £75m a Year" In pursuit of the extraordinary wood pigeon

41

Talkin' 'bout regeneration - What is regenerative farming and will it save the world?

42

Will we lose the turtledove? The battle to save part of England's soul

43

The challenge of being a tenant farmer in modern Britain

44

How To Save The English Village - In Search of Lost Pubs and Egg Vending Machines

45

How to win the Grand National - Horses, tears, and the men who can’t give up

46

Eating on the Wild Side: Cooking Squirrel Offal and Foraged Fennel

47

English Wine: The Art of Doing Things Differently

48

Britain’s Deer Problem: Can We Eat Our Way Out Of It?

49

Blackthorn, Billhooks and Protest - Hedges and What They Really Mean

50

Got Beef - Can Buying a Steak Be Good for Nature?

51

Savour the Shot: Woodcock Hunting, Cooking, and Conservation

52

Writing the Countryside