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Tiny's Cairn
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Antonia Quirke travels to Glen Lonan to see the ancient coffin road that led west to Iona Show more
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The Maelor
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border, takes Miles Warde round an unusual area once marked on maps as Flintshire (detached). Show more
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Stone Circles and Dark Skies in County Tyrone
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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How a small community has created a unique Dark Sky experience in the Sperrin Mountains including ancient stone circles, a bogland solar walk and a modern observatory. Show more
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Walking on Water, Isles of Scilly
25 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark uses a very low tide to walk between Tresco and Bryher, two of the Isles of Scilly, meeting people who delight in what is revealed, such as 3,000 year old field walls. Show more
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The Avon Gorge, Bristol
25 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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With Brunel's iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge towering overhead, Felicity Evans delves into the dense undergrowth of Bristol's spectacular Avon Gorge. Show more
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Brooklands Racetrack
25 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark takes you tearing around the banking at Brooklands, the world's first purpose built motor-racing circuit in Weybridge in Surrey. Show more
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Life on Coquet Island
25 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark visits Coquet Island, a sanctuary for some of Britain's rarest nesting sea birds and also home to the world's first 'puffin piano'. Show more
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Gilbert White’s Selborne
24 minutes
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A tour of Gilbert White’s house and garden and surrounding village of Selborne 300 years after this pioneering naturalist was born to explore the landscape which so inspired him. Show more
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New Land Owners, New Visions
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Two historic community land buyouts have been agreed with Buccleuch Estates in the south of Scotland. Caz Graham visits Newcastleton and Langholm to hear their visions for the land Show more
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Rediscovering Redesdale
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark finds out about a project in Redesdale in Northumberland to restore and celebrate its historic borderland landscape. Show more
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The Lighthouse on the Headland of the Great Seas
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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A community trust has taken over the visitor facility at Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, in the west of Scotland, to preserve its history and develop its tourist potential. Show more
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Frank Turner and the Meon Valley
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Punk and folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner returns the area in which he spent much of this early life, to the Meon Valley, to find out more about its landscape and history. Show more
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Winter at Binevenagh
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark rediscovers her local landscape on the shore of Lough Foyle, overlooked by the dramatic peak of Binevenagh, and marvels at its winter wildlife spectacles. Show more
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Twelve months of Open Country
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Helen Mark looks at some of the highlights from the last twelve months of Open Country including contributions from rower Helen Glover, Steve Backshall, and Dame Julie Walters. Show more
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Canna
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Canna, in the Western Isles, is four miles long and one mile wide with a current population of just 14. But as Fiona Mackenzie reveals, it's rich in landscapes, history and music. Show more
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Tales from the Black Mountains
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Travel writer Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the landscape and stories of her new home in Welsh Black Mountains, and reflects on the process of an unknown place becoming home. Show more
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An Obsession with Forsythia
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Monique Gudgeon is a gardener with a new obsession - forsythia. Helen Mark hears how she and others create National Plant Collections, conserving garden plants for the future. Show more
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Rare British breeds and their owners
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Photographer Amanda Lockhart has been criss-crossing the country in search the rarest British breeds and their owners. Show more
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Durham: Time and the Tides
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Poets Katrina Porteus and Phoebe Power and artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby revisit the Durham coastline to reveal how this landscape inspired an artistic collaboration. Show more
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People and Stone
24 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby explores the connections between people and stone in Dorset, from letter-cutting to fossil-gathering via a quarry and an underground tunnel. Show more