(90 programmes)
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Open Country
Growing Tents Not Crops on Gower
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Saturday.
Helen Mark visits the Gower Peninsula to explore the impact of tourism on farming.
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Open Country
Ripples of the Ballinderry River
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Sat, 12 Dec 2009.
Helen Mark is in Northern Ireland to follow the Ballinderry River from source to lough.
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The Living World
Tufty of Thirlmere
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 6 Dec 2009.
Lionel Kelleway searches for his own autumnal 'tufty' red squirrel in the Lake District.
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Open Country
Gloucestershire Wildlife ER
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Sat, 5 Dec 2009.
Helen Mark goes in search of the wild animals of Gloucestershire.
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The Living World
Autumn Ivy
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 29 Nov 2009.
Lionel Kelleway explores the important benefits of ivy to British wildlife.
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The Living World
Dartford Warbler
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 22 Nov 2009.
Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB reserve in Dorset to see the rare Dartford warbler.
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Open Country
The Hanbury Crater
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 21 Nov 2009.
Helen Mark and Time Team's Mick Aston investigate the story of the Hanbury Crater.
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The Living World
Sika Deer
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Fri, 20 Nov 2009.
Lionel Kelleway heads to Purbeck to see sika at the start of the rutting season.
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Open Country
A Journey Through the New Forest
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 14 Nov 2009.
Matt Baker discovers some alternative methods of transport in the New Forest.
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Open Country
Owenstown
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 7 Nov 2009.
Matt Baker explores plans to create a new Lanarkshire town based on Robert Owen's ideals.
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Open Country
Brian May's 3-D Village
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 31 Oct 2009.
Queen guitarist Brian May visits a village captured in time by a Victorian photographer.
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Costing the Earth
Countdown to Copenhagen
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 26 Oct 2009.
Tom Heap on the prospects for the United Nations' crucial climate change conference.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 6
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 24 Oct 2009.
6/6. Clare Balding walks the final stage of St Oswald's Way.
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Costing the Earth
Guilt-Free Flying
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 19 Oct 2009.
Can technology remove the guilt from flight? Tom Heap and Bruce Dickinson investigate.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 5
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 17 Oct 2009.
5/6. Clare Balding walks the fifth leg of St Oswald's Way, from Rothbury to Simonside.
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Nature
Series 3, Migrating Stones
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 13 Oct 2009.
9/9. A poet and a stone are companions on a most unusual journey to Australia.
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Costing the Earth
The Art of Protest
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 12 Oct 2009.
Tom Heap finds out if eco-activists are facing their toughest challenges yet.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 4
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 10 Oct 2009.
4/6. Clare continues her journey in the company of a group of local walkers, led by Jon Monks.
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Nature
Series 3, Insect Soundings
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 13 Oct 2009.
8/9. An unusual sound safari, eavesdropping on the world of insect sounds.
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Costing the Earth
The Three Peaks Challenge
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 12 Oct 2009.
Are charity mountaineers damaging our highest peaks? Alice Roberts reports.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 3
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 10 Oct 2009.
3/6. Clare walks the third stretch of the route, from Alnmouth to Warkworth.
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Nature
Series 3, In Search of Jenny
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Fri, 13 Nov 2009.
7/9. The search to find the first gorilla brought out of Africa to live in captivity.
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Costing the Earth
The Great Mineral Heist
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 5 Oct 2009.
Alice Roberts investigates the loss of vitamins and minerals from our staple foods.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 2
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Sat, 26 Sep 2009.
2/6. Clare walks the second section of the route, from Belford to Beadnell, via Bamburgh Castle
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Nature
Series 3, Calf of Man
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 29 Sep 2009.
6/9. Brett Westwood visits the Calf of Man, a rugged island to the south of the Isle of Man.
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Costing the Earth
Supergrid
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 28 Sep 2009.
Tom Heap tests the notion of a 'Supergrid' linking renewable resources across Europe.
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Ramblings
Series 13, Episode 1
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Sat, 26 Sep 2009.
1/6. Clare walks the first section of the route, from Holy Island to St Cuthbert's Cave.
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Nature
Series 3, Mud, Birds and Tides: The Severn Estuary
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Wed, 23 Sep 2009.
5/9. Chris Sperring discovers that the Severn Estuary is a vital nursery ground for marine fish
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Costing the Earth
Buildings
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 21 Sep 2009.
Tom Heap asks if we are looking in the wrong place for solutions to climate change.
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Open Country
Haweswater
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 19 Sep 2009.
Helen Mark meets Booker-nominated author Sarah Hall at Haweswater Reservoir in Cumbria.
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Nature
Series 3, Manx Marine Nature Reserve
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 8 Sep 2009.
4/9. Brett Westwood asks how feasible it is to set up a conservation area in the sea.
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Costing the Earth
Sell-by Dates
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 7 Sep 2009.
Tom Heap finds out if dates on food are past their sell-by date.
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The Living World
Grassland Meadows
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 6 Sep 2009.
Lionel Kelleway is taken to some special grassland to see its wild flowers.
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Open Country
Tales From the Serpentine
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 5 Sep 2009.
Matt Baker visits London' s Hyde Park to discover the history of the Serpentine Lake.
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Nature
Series 3, The Sea of Cortez
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 1 Sep 2009.
3/9. Tessa McGregor explores the Sea of Cortez, a whale and dolphin hotspot off Mexico.
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Costing the Earth
Turbines or Tearooms
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 31 Aug 2009.
Can we break the log-jam holding back renewable energy? Tom Heap investigates.
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The Living World
Great Bustards
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 30 Aug 2009.
Lionel Kelleway finds out about a programme to re-introduce the Great Bustard to Britain.
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Open Country
Dunluce Castle
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 29 Aug 2009.
Helen Mark unearths some new truths about Dunluce Castle in County Antrim.
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Nature
Series 3, Restoring Heathlands
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 25 Aug 2009.
2/9. Brett Westwood investigates the potential for restoring large areas of heathland.
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The Living World
Heath Fritillary
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 23 Aug 2009.
Lionel Kelleway visits a valley in Exmoor National Park in search of a rare butterfly.
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Open Country
Cumbrian Power
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 22 Aug 2009.
Helen Mark visits Kirksanton, a possible site for a new nuclear power station.
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Nature
Series 3, Episode 1
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 18 Aug 2009.
1/9. Brett Westwood encounters the large blue butterfly on the Somerset Downs.
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The Living World
Cuckoos
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Tue, 18 Aug 2009.
Lionel Kelleway heads to Dartmoor to get close to a juvenile cuckoo and its foster parents
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Open Country
Trouble on the Teifi
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Tue, 18 Aug 2009.
Matt Baker reports on the dispute going on between anglers and canoeists on Welsh rivers.
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Open Country
Ospreys of Rutland Water
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 8 Aug 2009.
Helen Mark looks at the battle between water supply and wildlife at Rutland Water.
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Last Chance for Africa's Elephants?
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Wed, 5 Aug 2009.
How can science can stop an upsurge in the slaughter of African elephants for their ivory?
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Open Country
WWII Secrets of The Peak District
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 1 Aug 2009.
Matt Baker discovers the Second World War secrets of the Peak District.
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Open Country
Firth of Lorne
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 25 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark on the battle between fishermen and conservationists over the Firth of Lorne.
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Open Country
Doggerland
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 18 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark explores the history of Doggerland, a land lost beneath the waves.
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Open Country
Sussex Visions
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 11 Jul 2009.
Matt Baker takes a fresh look at one of our most visited landscapes.
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Open Country
Orkney Energy
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark meets the Scottish islanders determined to become self-sufficient in energy.
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The Greening of the Deserts
Episode 2
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
2/2. Ayisha visits the Egyptian settlement of Abu Minqar.
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On Your Farm
28/06/2009
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 28 Jun 2009.
Tom Heap visits a farm preparing its Longhorn Cattle for the Royal Show in Warwickshire
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 6
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 27 Jun 2009.
6/6. Clare Balding joins two polar explorers to walk in Scotland's picturesque Wester Ross.
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The Greening of the Deserts
Episode 1
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Wed, 24 Jun 2009.
1/2. Ayisha Yahya explores predictions that some deserts could turn greener in the future.
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On Your Farm
21/06/2009
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 21 Jun 2009.
Topical farming magazine. Elinor Goodman visits a bison farm in Wiltshire.
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 5
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available since Sat, 20 Jun 2009.
5/6. Clare Balding walks on the Scottish peninsular of Cromarty with author Douglas Willis.
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James and the Giant Tree
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Wed, 17 Jun 2009.
Professional tree climber James Aldred climbs one of Britain's tallest trees.
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The Living World
Ancient Orchards
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 14 Jun 2009.
Lionel Kelleway is guided by two National Trust experts around a 100-year-old orchard.
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 4
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 13 Jun 2009.
4/6. Clare Balding meets Garth Gunn and his son Craig on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.
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The Living World
Starfish
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 7 Jun 2009.
Marine biologist Peter Heyward and Lionel Kelleway search for starfish.
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 3
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 6 Jun 2009.
3/6. Clare Balding walks in Wiltshire with 'modern-day Troubadours'.
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Nature
Series 2, Seabirds - Canaries on the Cliffs
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 2 Jun 2009.
7/8. Chris Sperring explores declining seabird numbers and asks if it represents a crisis.
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The Living World
Grass Snakes
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 31 May 2009.
Lionel Kelleway tries to get close to the grass snake, Britain's largest native snake.
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 2
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 30 May 2009.
2/6. Clare joins blind walker Rob Davies at Hulne Park, on the Duke of Northumberland's estate.
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Nature
Series 2, Decline In Migrants
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 26 May 2009.
6/8. Brett Westwood searches for the reasons behind the declining numbers of migrant songbirds.
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Costing the Earth
The Carteret Islands - Sharks In The Garden
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 25 May 2009.
How the Carteret Islands are slowly being submerged by the rising sea.
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The Living World
Marsh Harriers
Listen now (22 minutes)
Available since Sun, 24 May 2009.
Lionel Kelleway gets very close to the marsh harrier.
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Ramblings
Series 12, Episode 1
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Sat, 23 May 2009.
1/6. Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison in Suffolk.
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Nature
Series 2, Alien Attitudes
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 19 May 2009.
5/8. Are we being consistent in our approach to non-native plants and animals?
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Costing the Earth
Whose Amazon Is It Anyway?
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 18 May 2009.
How arguments about the protection of the Amazon rainforest are playing out in Brazil.
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Open Country
North Devon Coastline
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 16 May 2009.
Helen Mark explores the north Devon coastline.
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Nature
Series 2, Anuta - An Island Governed By Love
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 12 May 2009.
4/8. Huw Cordey meets the people of the tiny island of Anuta in the South Pacific.
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Costing the Earth
The Environmental Cost of Ageing
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 12 May 2009.
Tom Heap examines the carbon footprint of older people.
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Open Country
Settle to Carlisle Railway
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available since Sat, 9 May 2009.
Matt Baker visits England's most scenic railway line, from Settle to Carlisle.
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Nature
Series 2, The Future of the Amazon
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 5 May 2009.
3/8. Paul Evans investigates the Amazon, the biggest area of rainforest left on Earth.
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Costing the Earth
Raising a Stink
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Mon, 4 May 2009.
Alice Roberts discovers the potential savings available by harnessing the power of sewage.
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Open Country
Four Hundred Years of Parish Life
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 2 May 2009.
Helen Mark joins historian Peter Edwards to visit the Worcestershire village of Rushock.
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Nature
Series 2, Access For All?
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 28 Apr 2009.
2/8. Paul Evans visits Dorset to find out why heathland birds don't welcome hordes of visitors.
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Open Country
Skye Scavengers
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available since Sat, 25 Apr 2009.
Matt Baker finds out just how idyllic life was for Mesolithic man on the Isle of Skye.
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Nature
Series 2, The Vogelkop Bowerbird
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Tue, 21 Apr 2009.
1/8. A close encounter with two birds that revealed an exquisite courtship performance.
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Costing the Earth
Antarctic Treaty
Listen now (30 minutes)
Available since Wed, 8 Apr 2009.
Tom Heap reports on the Antarctic Treaty.
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Open Country
04/04/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark explores the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
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Open Country
28/03/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
How the parklands and wetlands of the Lea Valley are being transformed for London 2012.
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Open Country
21/03/2009
Listen now (27 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Caz Graham joins the tenth anniversary celebrations of Keswick's Theatre by the Lake.
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Open Country
14/03/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark meets the people and wildlife that make their home on Snowdon.
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Open Country
07/03/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark visits Scotland to find that the freshwater pearl mussel faces new threats.
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Open Country
28/02/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Matt Baker investigates Cumbria's industrial coastline, which is being given a makeover.
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Open Country
21/02/2009
Listen now (25 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Tue, 7 Jul 2009.
Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped Speyside in Scotland.
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Open Country
14/02/2009
Listen now (23 minutes)
Available in RealMedia only since Sat, 14 Feb 2009.
Matt Baker travels to Essex to see the vast area the RSPB is turning into a nature reserve

