Gareth Dennis: The truth about HS2 that you never knew until it was too late
HS2: blot on the landscape? Or the greatest missed opportunity in a generation?What if the future of transport in Britain wasn't about electric cars and extra runways at Heathrow, but a 200-year-old t...
17 Feb 202537min
The best places to visit in 2025 and hunting for the Ark of the Covenant, with Lonely Planet's Tom Hall
It’s an annoying thing to have to write down, because in my head it felt like it was only yesterday, but it’s been 10 years since I finished university, packed a big rucksack, and went to go and see t...
4 Feb 202539min
Marina Gibson: The angler extraordinaire on salmon fishing, conservation and bagpipes on the Tay
We are back. Thank you all for bearing with us while we get our ducks in a row for another year of the Country Life Podcast. If it’s even possible, it’s going to be better than last year, that we can ...
27 Jan 202540min
Mushroom gin, Lego houses, and Dull Men (and women), with James May
Like all serious journalists, James May used to work for Country Life writing about cars. It didn't go very well, but thankfully he bounced back and went on to present Top Gear, The Grand Tour, and ma...
16 Dec 202429min
Champagne with fish and chips, and what to drink at Christmas with Oscar Dodd of Fortnum & Mason
'Anything said with absolute confidence and in absolute terms is normally nonsense,' says Oscar Dodd, about Fortnum & Mason's wine and spirits buyer, when it comes to discussing the oft-trotted out tr...
2 Dec 202436min
Kelvin Fletcher: From Strictly to sheep dip
Dancer, actor, father of four and farmer. There are very few things that Kelvin Fletcher cannot do. ‘Hold on’, you might say. ‘What do you mean farmer? I thought that was just acting?’ Well, it was, u...
25 Nov 202423min
Henrietta Spencer-Churchill: My life at Blenheim Palace
Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, the only daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough, has by any measure led an extraordinary life. As a girl she moved from the family home in Oxfordshire to Blenheim P...
18 Nov 202425min
The science behind how Nature can heal us, and how it's easier than you think, with Professor Miles Richardson
The idea of 'nature as a healer' as become a truism, often repeated without much thought given to how or why it should do so.One man who has thought about this phenomenon — and spent much of his life ...
11 Nov 202433min
