What is it like to grow up in a castle? Can you name Cambridge's most famous landmark? And who is the Welly Wanging World Record Holder? All this and more is revealed in today's Dawn Chorus.
A year of staggeringly wet weather across most of Britain has caused all sorts of ups and downs for gardeners and farmers — but will it have an impact on the changing colours of the leaves on the trees around us?
From commutable farmhouses to a Georgian masterpiece of astonishing splendour, here's our pick of the best houses to hit the market via Country Life this week.
A spectacular view of Snowdonia, the intelligence of owls and our quiz of the day are all highlights of this morning's Dawn Chorus.
Are these the 133 best hotels in Britain?
In December 1916 Country Life magazine was granted extraordinary access to The White House.
Pine Martens are back on Dartmoor — but why?
The man who's been trying to resurrect woolly mammoths has turned his gaze on the animals of today which need saving.
The gun used to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Hemingway's typewriter and the drum featured on the cover of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are part of Rick Guest's extraordinary collection of photography, Holy Relics at the StART Fair.
We take a look at the last few weeks of the summer season for wasps — which, for almost all of them, is also the last few weeks of their lives.
Britain's last remaining coal-fired power station has been turned off for good, we reflect on one of Britain's most beautiful lakes, and take a look at a job with an 1980s-style pension.
Poet, broadcaster and writer Ian McMillan joins the Country Life Podcast.
We take a look at some of the best homes to fall under the spotlight via Country Life in the past week.
Trewsbury House, in a lovely spot near the source of the Thames, is a delight. Take a look inside.
Lucy Shepherd has spent the last 10 years adventuring through some of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. She spoke to James Fisher about her life, her inspirations, her career to date and her latest expedition, through some of the most remote jungle in the Amazon.
When is a bath not a bath? When it's a work of art.
A delightful manor house, an equally irresistible cottage and magnificent views are part of the package at Manor House in High Birstwith, Yorkshire.
Cliffside drama, bucolic delights, historic homes and thatched beauties are among this week's homes.
Admission is free to Charlie Waite's Light & Land exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
