Countrystride
A celebration of the landscapes, culture, heritage and people of Cumbria and the Lake District.Podcasts
Countrystride #112: Melvyn Bragg - Back in the Day
Published: Nov. 10, 2023, 7:44 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 31 seconds
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Countrystride #111: The Herdwick, with Will Rawling
Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 12:42 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 59 seconds
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Countrystride #110: Eliza Lynn Linton and The Lake Country
Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 7:34 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 49 seconds
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Countrystride #109: Aira Force - Lakeland pleasure ground
Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 12:12 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #108: To the Lakes! The early days of tourism
Published: Sept. 2, 2023, 11:59 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 56 seconds
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Countrystride #107: Tales from Little Langdale
Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 6:07 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 55 seconds
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Countrystride #106: The lichens of Borrowdale
Published: July 21, 2023, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 20 seconds
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Countrystride #105: The Old Man and the slate
Published: June 30, 2023, 11:28 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds
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Countrystride #104: Eskdale - Living the Fisherground dream
Published: June 16, 2023, 9:08 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 12 seconds
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Countrystride #103: Ambleside - A town through time
Published: June 3, 2023, 9:58 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 10 seconds
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Countrystride #102: A Coast to Coast love affair, with Debbie North
Published: May 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 33 seconds
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Countrystride #101: The Yellow Earl and Lowther Castle
Published: April 28, 2023, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #100: Why we love the Lakes
Published: April 14, 2023, 4:06 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #99: PEAT, POWER & THE PUBLIC – Caring for Watendlath
Published: March 31, 2023, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 57 seconds
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Countrystride #98: Askham – A vernacular celebration
Published: March 10, 2023, 1:56 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 44 seconds
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Countrystride #97: Townend – A Troutbeck farming dynasty
Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 8:55 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 59 seconds
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Countrystride #96: Eric Robson – Wasdale, Wainwright, and a champion of Cumbria
Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 9:42 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
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Countrystride #95: Catbells & Hugh Walpole
Published: Jan. 13, 2023, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 30 seconds
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Countrystride #94: Review of 2022
Published: Dec. 30, 2022, 9:04 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 41 seconds
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Countrystride #93: A Grasmere Gingerbread Christmas
Published: Dec. 16, 2022, 7:10 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds
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Countrystride #92: Dentdale and The Dales High Way
Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 7:22 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 1 second
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Countrystride #91: Geology of the Lake District
Published: Nov. 18, 2022, 11:42 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 49 seconds
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Countrystride #90: The VIKINGS in Cumbria
Published: Oct. 28, 2022, 11:47 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 53 seconds
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Countrystride #89: Steve Birkinshaw – Smashing the 214
Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 5:25 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds
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Countrystride #88: Forty Farms – Food and nature at Low Sizergh Farm
Published: Sept. 23, 2022, 6:19 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 28 seconds
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Countrystride #87: Trees in the age of the Romantics
Published: Sept. 4, 2022, 6:49 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 39 seconds
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Countrystride #86: Beatrix Potter
Published: Aug. 19, 2022, 4:23 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 22 seconds
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Countrystride #85: COPPERMINES VALLEY - Landscape legacy of audacious ambition
Published: July 29, 2022, 7:25 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds
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Countrystride #84: Latrigg - with Friends of the Lake District
Published: July 15, 2022, noonDuration: 1 hour 3 minutes 49 seconds
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Countrystride #83: Alston & Isaac’s Tea Trail
Published: July 4, 2022, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 44 seconds
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Countrystride #82: Dry-stone walling
Published: June 10, 2022, 7 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 52 seconds
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Countrystride #81: Cumbrian dialect
Published: May 20, 2022, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 39 seconds
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Countrystride #80: ILLGILL HEAD - In search of the sublime
Published: May 6, 2022, 10:07 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 55 seconds
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Countrystride #79: Arthur Ransome - Life, loves & literature
Published: April 18, 2022, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 7 seconds
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Countrystride #78: The Carlisle-Settle line & springtime in Eden
Published: April 1, 2022, 6:24 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 55 seconds
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Countrystride #77: Fell ponies – On Roundthwaite Common with Libby Robinson
Published: March 18, 2022, 7:56 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 50 seconds
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Countrystride #76: Wild Fell – Restoring Haweswater, with Lee Schofield
Published: March 4, 2022, 8:49 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 23 seconds
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COUNTRYSTRIDE #75: The battle to save Ullswater
Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 1:52 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #74: Railways of Cumbria
Published: Feb. 4, 2022, 9:46 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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Countrystride #73: Millican Dalton - ’Caveman of Borrowdale’
Published: Jan. 21, 2022, 7:13 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 37 seconds
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Countrystride #72: Review of 2021
Published: Dec. 31, 2021, 1:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 23 seconds
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Countrystride #71: A Lake District Christmas
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds
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Countrystride #70: Caldbeck - A community through time
Published: Dec. 10, 2021, 7:59 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 42 seconds
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Countrystride #69: Blencathra with Andy Airey
Published: Nov. 26, 2021, 6:31 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 53 seconds
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Countrystride #68: Richard Leafe - The National Park at 70
Published: Nov. 12, 2021, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 8 seconds
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Countrystride #67: Ghosts on the coast
Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 46 seconds
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Countrystride#66: Eskdale - Rain & recollections
Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 8:17 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 48 seconds
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Countrystride #65: The passionate sisterhood - Sisters and wives of the Lake Poets
Published: Oct. 1, 2021, 7:20 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 53 seconds
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Countrystride #64: Joss Naylor
Published: Sept. 17, 2021, 5:29 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds
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Countrystride #63: Danny Teasdale - Ullswater after the storm
Published: Sept. 3, 2021, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 58 seconds
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Countrystride #62: GRANGE-OVER-SANDS & Hampsfell
Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds
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Countrystride #61: Norman Nicholson - Son of Millom
Published: Aug. 6, 2021, 1:24 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 2 seconds
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Countrystride #60: Wad - The wealth of Borrowdale
Published: July 23, 2021, 7:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 seconds
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Countrystride #59: Rural visionary - John Dunning in the Westmorland Dales
Published: July 9, 2021, 11:53 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 51 seconds
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Countrystride #58: Swaledale - Meadows & mines
Published: June 25, 2021, 5:24 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 3 seconds
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Countrystride #57: Helvellyn
Published: June 18, 2021, 11:02 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 53 seconds
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Countrystride #56: Life in the woods - Working the Rusland rainforests
Published: May 28, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 30 seconds
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Countrystride 55: Threlkeld - A story of stone & steam
Published: May 21, 2021, 5:12 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 32 seconds
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Countrystride #54: Damsons of the Lyth Valley
Published: May 7, 2021, 6:39 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 29 seconds
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Countrystride #53: The lost history of hill farming
Published: April 26, 2021, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 11 seconds
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Countrystride #52: Cumbria Way with Paddy Dillon
Published: April 5, 2021, 2:31 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds
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Countrystride #51: Skiddaw House - Loneliest house in England
Published: March 19, 2021, 7:02 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 33 seconds
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Countrystride #50: The young people of Cumbria
Published: March 6, 2021, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 1 second
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Countrystride #49: Wainwright on Haystacks - An anniversary retrospective
Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 7:50 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #48: Hadrian's Wall
Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 6:25 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds
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Countrystride #47: Lakeland pilgrims
Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 51 seconds
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Countrystride #46: Cumbria in a campervan
Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 5 seconds
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Countrystride #45: Review of 2020
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #44: Christmas past - A Wetheral wander
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 10 seconds
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Countrystride #43: Shap & The Postman's Path
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 51 seconds
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Countrystride #42: Cumbria on film
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 22 seconds
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Countrystride #41: Harriet Martineau - The roving Laker
Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 9:14 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 51 seconds
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Countrystride #40: Bill Lloyd - Into the woods
Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 8:15 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds
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Countrystride #39: Thirlmere - and the flooding of a valley
Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 1:23 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds
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Countrystride #38: James Rebanks - English Pastoral
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 8:34 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 37 seconds
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Countrystride #37: Hardwicke Rawnsley - Lakeland champion
Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds
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Countrystride #36: A Walney Wander
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 4:42 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes
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Countrystride #35: The children's literature of Lakeland
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 9:49 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 54 seconds
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Countrystride #34: Caring for the commons- A view from Newlands
Published: July 31, 2020, 6:43 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds
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Countrystride #33: A brief history of Cumbria
Published: July 17, 2020, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds
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Countrystride #32: Lady Anne Clifford - First lady of Westmorland
Published: June 28, 2020, 11:07 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 46 seconds
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Countrystride #31: Cumbrian folk music and the Back o'Skiddaw
Published: May 29, 2020, 11:29 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes
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Countrystride #30: Buttermere - Tales from the secret valley
Published: April 30, 2020, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds
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Countrystride #29: Dorothy Wordsworth & women walking pioneers
Published: April 9, 2020, 11:06 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds
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Countrystride #28: Future farming – Six generations working the land
Published: March 18, 2020, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 53 seconds
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Countrystride #27: Bill Birkett - Lakeland legend in Langdale
Published: March 2, 2020, 10:51 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds
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Countrystride #26: Piers Gill - A winter's ascent with Mountain Rescue
Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 12:27 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes
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Countrystride #25: Smugglers, bombs and Plague Dogs - A walk on Wetherlam
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 12:21 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds
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Countrystride #24: Review of 2019 & AW's lost broadcast
Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 12:21 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 19 seconds
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Countrystride #23: West Coast Christmas - Voices from the past
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 9:43 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 56 seconds
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Countrystride #22: Lost Words - Past and future in the woods of Wreay
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 34 seconds
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Countrystride #21: Great Gable - Remembrance Sunday
Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds
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Countrystride #20: Upper Eden - The fight to roam, with Kate Ashbrook
Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 7:26 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds
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Countrystride #19: Pike O’Stickle - 50 years on the fells
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 4 seconds
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Countrystride #18: The Pennine Way - Creation of a long, green trail
Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 7:19 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds
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Countrystride #17: Beda Fell - with environmental campaigner Amy Bray
Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 4:53 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 46 seconds
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Countrystride #16: The Dales Way at 50 - A walk down Dentdale
Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 5:40 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 45 seconds
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Countrystride #15: John Ruskin - The Coniston visionary
Published: July 5, 2019, 12:56 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 seconds
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Countrystride #14: A Pennine Journey - Life-changing walks
Published: May 29, 2019, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds
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Countrystride #13: The Solway Coast - Wetlands, birdsong and lost lines
Published: April 28, 2019, 9:14 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 7 seconds
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Countrystride #12: Great Langdale - A heritage landscape
Published: April 12, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 58 seconds
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Countrystride #11: High Stile – and the Buttermere skyline
Published: March 15, 2019, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 52 seconds
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Countrystride #10: Mardale Head - A walk on the wild side
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 6:09 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 26 seconds
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Countrystride #9: Derwent Water: Creation of a landscape
Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 6:32 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 36 seconds
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Countrystride #8: Terry Abraham: Life on the mountains - A stroll on Helvellyn
Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 29 seconds
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Countrystride #7: A Grasmere Christmas - The Wordsworths and the coffin route
Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 10:41 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 50 seconds
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Countrystride #6: Langstrath - and the trees of Borrowdale
Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 52 seconds
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Countrystride #5: Ghosts of Burnmoor - Eskdale to Wasdale
Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 11:38 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds
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Countrystride #4: Alfred Wainwright - In the footsteps of a legend
Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 33 seconds
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Countrystride #3: Farming the Borderlands - Rural life and the Roman Wall
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 26 seconds
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Countrystride #2: Sheffield Pike - Mines and Community
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 11:47 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds
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Countrystride #1: Scafell Pike - Roof of England
Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 10:21 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 21 seconds
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