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Open Country Episodes

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    These Debatable Lands

    Helen Mark explores 50 square miles that were neither England nor Scotland.

  2. The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor

    Martha Kearney discovers how one of the UK's largest nature projects is taking root.

  3. Night under the Stars

    Helen Mark joins a group of young carers as they spend a night under canvas on Dartmoor.

  4. Aberaeron's Mackerel Festival

    How mackerel (and other fish) have shaped the people and landscape of Aberaeron.

  5. Wildlife Watching on Mull

    This week, Open Country visits Mull to learn about responsible wildlife watching.

  6. Battery Rocks

    Helen Mark discovers a wilderness in the heart of Penzance.

  7. Football Falcons Rookies and Rooks

    Footballers and birdwatching.

  8. Writing Wildness

    Helen Mark heads to the Shropshire hills to discover how to write about nature.

  9. The Sound of the Fens

    Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.

  10. Anneka Rice and Maggi Hambling in Suffolk

    The landscapes and seascapes that have inspired the artist Maggi Hambling.

  11. Wiltshire's white horses

    Helen Mark explores the chalk hill carvings of the Wiltshire landscape.

  12. Shivering Sands

    Martha Kearney explores the history of the Shivering Sands sea forts off the Kent coast.

  13. Bats on Punts

    Martha Kearney explores the world of nocturnal wildlife in Cambridge.

  14. Gibraltar Point

    Martha Kearney explores the shifting sands of Gibraltar Point, on the Lincolnshire coast.

  15. Mapping Britain's Holloways

    Helen Mark takes a trip along the ancient sunken roads of Dorset.

  16. Darwin's Childhood Garden

    A journey through Charles Darwin’s childhood garden.

  17. Diving Gannets and Raging Seas

    Martha Kearney gets up close to Bass Rock, one of the world's largest gannet colonies.

  18. Postal Paths and Corpse Roads

    Helen Mark is in Cumbria, finding out about some of the county's historic fell routes.

  19. Britain’s deadliest footpath

    Helen Mark explores the Broomway in Essex, nicknamed 'Britain's deadliest footpath'.

  20. Field notes from Mars

    Rose Ferraby explores the links between the landscapes of Orkney and the planet Mars.

  21. Tales from the Quoile Riverbank

    Flooding, steamboats and Vikings - Helen Mark charts colourful times on the River Quoile.

  22. Reed cutting at Cley

    Ruth Sanderson meets reed cutters in Norfolk's oldest nature reserve.

  23. The changing river with Philippa Forrester

    Philippa Forrester shares stories about the river in her garden.

  24. Mabel's mountain trip with hares

    Three men and a famous dog have an adventure in the snow.

  25. Return of the Derry Girl

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the emerging new identity of Derry/Londonderry.

  26. Creative Island with Anneka Rice

    What makes the Isle of Wight one of the most creative places in the UK?

  27. Seeking asylum in nature

    Helen Mark meets a group of asylum seekers as they help with conservation work in Wales.

  28. Music of the Gloucestershire landscape

    Rose Ferraby finds out how the Gloucestershire landscape has inspired classical composers.

  29. Wintertide in Hartlepool

    Sally Rodgers of A Man Called Adam celebrates the Wintertide Festival in Hartlepool.

  30. Unearthing the past at Vindolanda

    Archaeologist Rose Ferraby visits the Roman site of Vindolanda in Northumberland.

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