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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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33:53

Amelia Thomas: The woman who learned to talk to animals

Country Life ·

2025/11/03

A few years ago, Amelia Thomas and her husband packed up their fast-paced lives and moved to a remote farm in Nova Scotia.Faced with a desolate landscape, appalling weather and a husband who —like most Finns — abhorred small-talk, she found herself spending more and more time listening to the animals she cared for in her house and on her farm. And at that point, something magical began to happen: she began to notice and, eventually, understand the many ways in which they were communicating with

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31:21

Stefan Pitman: Making great country houses cost less...

Country Life ·

2025/10/21

Ten years ago, Stefan Pitman set up SPASE Architects. Right from the start, he realised many of his clients were coming to him with one big problem: they might own beautiful old buildings, but they cost a fortune to run.'We have really close connections with our clients,' he tells James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast, 'and we talked about what is it like to actually have the responsibility and the upkeep of these old buildings? And that's when, certainly for a number of owners and clients, we

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33:28

The lives, wild parties and country houses of the...

Country Life ·

2025/10/13

'When they came to me and said, "do you want to do a book on the Guinness houses?" I leapt at the chance. Because, I've got to tell you, they have some astonishing houses. I mean, some really amazing places.'So says Adrian Tinniswood, who —like the Guinness family houses —is also amazing and astonishing. He's a historian and writer who has enjoyed a fifty-year career writing books about the greatest houses in Britain which manage to be simultaneously scholarly, fascinating and wildly entertaining

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37:52

Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess on farming,...

Country Life ·

2025/10/06

Growing up in the cityscape of Huddersfield, Amanda Owen was inspired by tales of farming life, from the adventures of James Herriot to the classic Hill Shepherd by John Forder, painting a picture of fell farming that became all she wanted to do.Fast forward to the 2020s and Amanda has become one of the best-known farmers in the country, starting with her Instagram account — where she has over half a million followers as @yorkshireshepherdess —and progressing on to television documentaries and

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26:18

James Robinson: A fifth-generation farmer on the ups...

Country Life ·

2025/09/29

'It's often the most glorious job in the world,' says James Robinson, a farmer in Cumbria whose family have been working the same piece of land since the 19th century.The bad days, though, can be bleak, and when 'you're life's work is disappearing before your eyes' there are days when 'you wish you'd never started farming at all,' James tells the Country Life Podcast this week.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast

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52:54

Hannah Shergold: Flying helicopters, rampaging...

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2025/09/22

Hannah Shergold is nothing if not proof that following your instincts really can take you anywhere.Today, she's one of the best-known artists in Britain, a painter and sculptor who has sold countless works, and raised over £350,000 for charity while doing it.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleYet 20 years ago she was at Cambridge University and on course to become a vet, and a few years after that she

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30:40

Mark Ashley-Miller: The man who sailed to (almost)...

Country Life ·

2025/09/15

In 2018, Mark Ashley-Miller bought a boat. There's nothing unusual in that, but there is in what happened next: he decided to sail around the coasts of Britain and Ireland, visiting every single harbour in the British Isles. And unlike most people who have such pipe dreams, he actually did it.The journey is now over, and we're delighted that Mark joined James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to talk about his five years at sea, the 9,000 nautical miles he's sailed, and the 300+ harbourmasters he

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34:06

Jules Perowne: Where to go in 2026, hotel disasters...

Country Life ·

2025/09/08

Jules Perowne —CEO and founder of Perowne International —is one of the most respected voices in the luxury travel industry, working as a consultant and PR guru for some of the most famous hotels in the world, including Gleneagles, Claridges and dozens more around the globe.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleNow, she's also becoming a podcaster alongside the actor Richard E. Grant, presenting the

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24:46

White-tailed eagles: From 'the greatest wildlife...

Country Life ·

2025/09/01

For most of the last 2,000 years, the white-tailed eagle —or sea eagle —has been one of the most common birds of prey in Britain.That all ended in horrendous fashion from the late 18th century onwards. Shooting, poisoning, egg collection, a mania for taxidermy and more combined to see this majestic creature —affectionately dubbed the 'flying barn door —hunted to extinction in Britain. The last bird is thought to have been killed in 1918.Fast forward a century and they are now one of the great

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28:20

If there's no fish, there's no fishing, with Robin...

Country Life ·

2025/08/26

If you are a person who lives in the UK, and you like standing in, or nearby, rivers, there’s a good chance you will have heard of Farlows. It is one of the great outdoors companies of the UK, a place for all fishermen and women to obsess over rods and reels while they tell themselves that they would catch way more fish if they could just buy a bit more gear.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleWe were

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36:36

What the hedge can tell us about the countryside,...

Country Life ·

2025/08/19

Hedges are fascinating because they are like buildings. They are pretty much everywhere in rural England, Scotland and Wales, and yet do we ever really stop and think about what they are and what they do?One man who thinks a lot about what they are and what they do is Richard Negus, a professional hedgelayer and writer from Suffolk. His recent book, Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer's View of the Countryside aims to shine a light on these great green structures that define and demarcate our green

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38:18

Ken Follett on Stonehenge, building cathedrals, and...

Country Life ·

2025/08/12

Ken Follett is a man who doesn’t really need much introduction, but introduce him I will anyway. Thirty-eight books written. 197 million copies sold in 80 countries and in 40 languages. Very popular across the world —and even in China and Brazil, according to the man himself.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleYou would think that might be enough to retire on, but Ken is not interested in retirement

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29:28

The finest wines available to humanity, and how to...

Country Life ·

2025/08/05

You would be forgiven that a trip to space might be one of the hardest things that a human being could do. But, it might actually be becoming a Master of Wine (MW). After all, more people have been to space than there are MWs.One such master of the grape is Beth Pearce, the head of buying at Flint Wines, who took some time from her very busy schedule of finding, trying and signing off on some of the world’s finest wines to join the Country Life podcast.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple

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29:33

Levison Wood: Trekking the Nile, near-death...

Country Life ·

2025/07/28

'There was a time when I couldn't walk down the King's Road without being mobbed,' chuckles Levison Wood. This is no brag, though: it's said with the bemusement of a man who was catapulted to fame after his plan to trek the length of the River Nile made him into an unlikely celebrity alongside today's crop of modern explorers.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleWe're delighted that Levison joined James

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32:12

Bruce Hodgson: Artichoke's founder on catflaps,...

Country Life ·

2025/07/21

What do catflaps and some of the finest carpentry in the land have in common? Bruce Hodgson, that’s what. The man who founded Artichoke is our guest on the Country Life Podcast this week, talking us through the history of the brand, as well as his own personal journey as a craftsman, and what the future holds for heritage crafts.Bruce’s journey to Artichoke wasn’t what we’d call traditional. After ‘being asked to leave’ school, and a brief stint in the army, he returned to the thing that made him

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36:20

The truth about P.G. Wodehouse: Robert Daws on...

Country Life ·

2025/07/15

Anyone who loves P.G. Wodehouse knows Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings Castle and the Oldest Member golf stories. But what of the man himself? His early life as a sensation on Broadway? His extraordinary seven-days-a-week work ethic? The truth about his attempts to flee the Nazis, scuppered by an unreliable car, before he was interned and pressured into making wartime broadcasts for the German regime? His later life in the US, and his sadness at never returning to the UK — even to collect his eventual

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32:27

What it's like to come face-to-face with a great...

Country Life ·

2025/07/07

How do you come to a point in your life when you find yourself swimming with great white sharks?And how can it be that when you do, you find that moment 'completely normal'?Dan Abbott —aka Shark Man Dan — answered these and many more questions when he joined us on the Country Life Podcast at the beginning of 2025.In the six months or so since then, Dan's career has taken a huge upswing after he ended up as one of the stats of Netflix's All The Sharks, a unique blend of nature documentary and reality

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33:13

Marcus Janssen: Chelsea Lifejackets, bagging a...

Country Life ·

2025/06/30

'We still see people out wearing colours which we know for a fact we haven't produced in 15 or 20 years,' chuckles Marcus Janssen, head of Schöffel, as he speaks about the company's gilets —the 'Chelsea Lifejackets' —to James Fisher on this week's edition of the Country Life Podcast.Marcus took over at Schöffel after a career as a countryside journalist, stepping in to a role as head of a family-owned business which has been going for well over two centuries.His love of the British countryside

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30:04

Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the...

Country Life ·

2025/06/23

Corinne Fowler has never been one to shy away from straight talking.The Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at the University of Leicester made headlines for weeks back in 2020 after co-authoring a report for the National Trust on how the history and creation of many of our great houses are bound up with the history of slavery, conquest and colonialism. She was vilified in the right-wing press and accused by Nigel Farage of 'trashing our nation'.Her response does her huge credit. Instead of

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24:40

Steve Backshall on sharks, idyllic childhoods and...

Country Life ·

2025/06/16

The adventurer, broadcaster, scientist and writer Steve Backshall has been a fixture on TV screens in Britain for nearly three decades —and we're absolutely thrilled that he joined James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast.•Listen to Country Life podcast on Apple Podcasts•Listen to Country Life podcast on Spotify•Listen to Country Life podcast on AudibleSteve talks through some of the highlights of his amazing career, from coming face-to-face with tigers and great white sharks to discovering ancient

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