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Country Life

Country Life magazine has been celebrating the best of life in Britain for over 126 years, from the castles and cottages that dot the land to the beautiful countryside around us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:47

Lady Violet Manners on the past, present and future...

Country Life ·

2024/07/29

The thing about good ideas is that they sound incredibly obvious only after they’ve been invented. Take Deliveroo, for example. Looking back, of course it makes sense to get restaurants to deliver food, above and beyond the old-fashioned takeaway. Of course being able to summon a cab using an app will be a successful business, considering we tell everyone where we are all the time. Why didn’t I think of that?Violet Manners has had an idea. In her own words, she was quite surprised that nobody else

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37:10

The best beaches in Britain with Chris Haslam, the...

Country Life ·

2024/07/22

The award-winning journalist Chris Haslam doesn't just like beaches; he loves them.Chris, chief travel writer for the Sunday Times, recently returned from spending seven weeks touring the coastline of Britain to produce his list of the very best beaches in Britain. It's a mammoth undertaking, in which he and his dog —a Jack Russell called Dave —drove over 5,500 miles to inspect beaches from the tip of the Highlands to the Kent coast, and from the furthest tip of Cornwall to the broad sands of East

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35:01

Buckingham Palace, Taylor Swift, and how to get your...

Country Life ·

2024/07/15

Buckingham Palace’s East Wing has opened up to visitors for the first time in 2024. St James’s Palacedid so at the tail end of 2023. Even Balmoral — a royal residence privately owned by the Windsors, rather than part of the holdings of the Crown — has opened up its doors, something which would have been unimaginable during the lifetime of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Why has it happened, and what can it tell us about the Monarcy today? Country Life’s Architectural Editor John Goodall joins host

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31:30

The accidental invention of the teenager and other...

Country Life ·

2024/07/08

Look around you. You might be reading this in your home. Or perhaps someone else’s home. The point is we spend a lot of time in our homes, more so now than ever before (apart from that year we don’t talk about).Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple PodcastsListen to Country Life podcast on SpotifyListen to Country Life podcast on AudibleThey are our own private spaces — reflections on ourselves, our styles, our opinions, our choices, our ideas. Every choice you make when it comes to your home,

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32:06

Charlie Waite: Britain's greatest landscape...

Country Life ·

2024/07/01

The landscape photographer Charlie Waite is a true national treasure. A fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, he has published dozens of photography books and founded the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards back in 2006.We're absolutely delighted that he joined us on the Country Life Podcast, telling host James Fisher about his life in photography, how he was shaped by his early years in theatre and film, and his philosophy on how to produce —not just 'take' —a photograph has

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30:34

The worst new buildings in Britain, with Charlie Baker

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2024/06/24

The Carbuncle Cup —the award given to the worst new building in Britain —has returned after a six-year hiatus. Competition judge and magazine editor Charlie Baker spoke to James Fisher about why pointing out bad architecture matters.You can see pictures of all the buildings Charlie and James discuss in our show notes.Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple PodcastsListen to Country Life podcast on SpotifyListen to Country Life podcast on Google PodcastsListen to Country Life podcast on Audible

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27:54

What you need to know before you move house, by...

Country Life ·

2024/06/17

From the rollercoaster of mortgage rates to the calling of a surprise election, the economic landscape of Britain never seems to sit still these days.Thankfully, award-winning property journalist Annabel Dixon writes regularly for Country Life to help us make sense of what's going on and we're delighted that this week she joins James Fisher on the Country Life podcast.Annabel talks about whether now is a good time to buy, the best places to look, what you can expect if you move across the

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27:07

Why you've been doing holidays wrong for years

Country Life ·

2024/06/10

We lead busy lives these days —which might be all well and good for getting things done, but is the last thing you want on holiday.That's the central idea behind a new book by the travel writer Liz Schaffer, Slow Travel Britain, in which Liz travelled to 22 off-the-track parts of Britain to really take them in. From walking Hadrian's Wall to exploring the unspoilt corners of the Pembrokeshire coast, Liz made a point of taking her time, talking to the people she met, and avoiding —at all costs

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33:54

Why does Wales exist, and 46 more questions about the...

Country Life ·

2024/06/03

Some time between the formation of the earth, and now, some human beings decided to draw some lines on the sand somewhere to define ‘our bit’ of the earth and ‘their bit’ of the earth. We now refer to these lines as borders.Journalist and author Jonn Elledge has always been fascinated by why and how this happens, and in this episode he joins the Country Life Podcast to talk about borders and his new book, The History of the World in 47 Borders.Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple PodcastsListen

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30:03

The 12 most iconic paintings in the National Gallery

Country Life ·

2024/05/27

On May 10, 1824, Britain's National Gallery opened its doors for the first time. This year, to celebrate its bicentenary, the gallery is hosting a whole string of events and celebrations to market the occasion.Of all these, perhaps the boldest and most eye-catching is National Treasures, a selection of just 12 from among the thousands of masterpieces in the National Gallery's collection. The 12 paintings will be on display at 12 galleries around Britain, bringing art to people across the land, and

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37:04

An insider's guide to judging the Chelsea Flower Show

Country Life ·

2024/05/20

James Alexander-Sinclair is one of Britain's foremost garden designers and writers. He's a regular contributor to Country Life magazine and many other titles, and a regular presence on television screens talking about gardening.He is also one of the top judges at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show —and we're absolutely delighted that he joins us to give a full behind-the-scenes account of the entire judging process.James doesn't shy away from any of the issues —or the controversies which have raged in

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38:07

Isabella Tree: How rewilding took the Knepp Estate...

Country Life ·

2024/05/13

At the turn of the millennium, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell faced a crisis. They were £1.5 million in debt after spending 17 years trying to run a farm that simply wouldn't grow the crops they needed for it to be sustainable.With all their efforts to effect change and introduce diversification failing, they took a drastic decision: to return the farm to Nature —a decision which Isabella tells James Fisher all about on the Country Life Podcast.Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple

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35:51

When the King and Queen edited Country Life, by the...

Country Life ·

2024/05/06

Paula Lester has been running the features desk at Country Life magazine for over a decade. So when His Majesty The King —Prince Charles, as he was at the time —agreed to guest edit the magazine, she was the obvious choice to guide him and his team through the process.The result, as Paula tells James Fisher on this week's Country Life Podcast, could never have been foreseen: after months of work and literally thousands of emails, the magazine became Country Life's best-selling issue of all time. A

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47:14

Everything that's wrong with housing in Britain — and...

Country Life ·

2024/04/29

The housing crisis in Britain has gone on for decades almost unchecked —but it's only thanks to voices such as Nicholas Boys Smith that we can use the word 'almost' in that sentence. Nicholas is the founder of Create Streets, a think tank and consultancy which looks at property development and town planning across Britain. He joins host James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to explain what has been going wrong, why we've lost faith in planners, architects and developers, and what we can do to put

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30:52

Blenheim Palace: Behind the scenes at one of...

Country Life ·

2024/04/22

Beyond the Monarchy and the Church, there is only one building in Britain which is designated with word 'palace': Blenheim Palace.This UNESCO World Heritage Site is beyond any doubt one of the world's greatest, and most famous buildings. It was built to commemorate a famous battle 320 years ago: the victory in the Battle of Blenheim led by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, in which the army of Louis XIV was beaten in what was France's first major military defeat in half a century.Queen Anne was

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21:49

Emma Sims-Hilditch and the re-invention of the...

Country Life ·

2024/04/15

How important an interior designer is Emma Sims-Hilditch? 'In my view, she has almost completely turned the country house aesthetic on its head, and reinvented it for the 21st century,' says Giles Kime, Country Life's Executive Editor and our resident interiors guru.'She's a great believer in creating houses which are not just elegant, but also function brilliantly and are perfectly configured for family life.'Emma joined Giles for this special episode of the Country Life Podcast to discuss her

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36:50

Badminton at 75: The story of the 'Wimbledon of 3-day...

Country Life ·

2024/04/08

Kate Green isn't just the Deputy Editor of Country Life magazine. She's also one of the country's foremost equestrian journalists, having worked at four Olympic Games as well as countless other top events around the world.With her book on the 75th anniversary of the Badminton Horse Trials just launched, Kate tells the tale of how the crushing disappointment of the 1948 Olympics paved the way for a resurgence in the sport on these shores, which has led to Britain becoming the home of eventing.Kate

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42:52

Revd Colin Heber-Percy: Easter, the Meaning of Life,...

Country Life ·

2024/04/01

What is it all about? It's the question that Man has been struggling to answer since the dawn if human consciousness. And while we all have to figure out our own answer, it's never less than fascinating to hear of others who've found theirs.And in that light, this week's guest on the Country Life podcast is Colin Heber-Percy, a successful screenwriter for film and TV who, in his 40s, stepped away from a lucrative career and retrained to become an ordained minister in the Church of England. Today,

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48:57

The architect whose grand designs bring inspiration...

Country Life ·

2024/03/25

The award-winning architect Richard Hawkes is no ordinary designer of buildings. He has made his name and forged a career by creating some of the most astonishing new homes build in Britain in the past two decades.He joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to talk about the homes he designs,many of which are built under the Paragraph 84 rules, which allow the creation of new homes in rural areas where development would otherwise be forbidden.Richard's own house, centred beneath and around a

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34:30

Millie Pilkington: Photographing dogs, movie stars,...

Country Life ·

2024/03/18

Millie Pilkington is one of Britain's best-known portrait photographers, with her work regularly appearing in Country Life as well as dozens of other publications.We were truly delighted that she joined James Fisher on the Country Life podcast this week to talk about life behind the lens. She talks about how she turned a hobby in to a dream career, one in which she has dealt with everything from incorrigible dogs to taking private family pictures for the Prince and Princess of Wales.The secret of a

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