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'Seeing the work that people are doing all around the world has given me hope for the future': The young naturalist who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Julie Harding speaks to Ramandeep Nijjar, a young naturalist who has made an impact on the world even before finishing university, and one of David Beckham's countryside champions.
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1,000 issues and counting: Editor-in-chief Mark Hedges on the Country Life Podcast
Mark Hedges has been editor of Country Life for 1,000 issues — and not far short of 20 years.
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‘My football made me, my countryside saved me’: Vinnie Jones on going from the rough and tumble of the football pitch to the sanctuary of his West Sussex estate
A return to the land has been a redemptive journey for the gamekeeper’s son and former tough midfielder Vinnie Jones, finds Mary Skipwith.
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Poppy Okotcha, the model turned gardener who is one of David Beckham's countryside champions
Poppy Okotcha, the 29-year-old ecological community grower, garden content creator, author — and also one of David Beckham's countryside champions — speaks to Julie Harding.
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The mysterious case of Country Life's cursed photographs and other spooky stories from our archive
Melanie Bryan delves goes in search of the spookiest stories in the Country Life Archive.
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What is everyone talking about this week? How to be a patriot
A British 'GQ' cover has sparked questions about how to be a patriot amid today's culture wars.
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Meet David Beckham's milliner, the man who's created hats using everything from flora and fauna, to car parts and buckets
Barnaby Horn, an award-winning hat-maker and visual artist who learned much of his craft at Highgrove in Gloucestershire, is one of Sir David Beckham's countryside champions. He spoke to Julie Harding.
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'Sir David Beckham came to see our cattle a couple of years ago. He was fascinated': The stockman at the Glympton Estate
Trevor Kirk, a Scottish stockman who now tends the Aberdeen Angus herd on the Glympton Estate in Oxfordshire, is one of Sir David Beckham's rural heroes in the special guest-edited issue of the magazine. He spoke to Julie Harding.
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Stefan Pitman: Making great country houses cost less to heat than a suburban semi
The trailblazing architect Stefan Pitman — founder of SPASE — joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Dire Straits' bassist John Illsley reveals why he swapped the recording studio for the art studio — and his consuming passions
John Illsley rose to fame as the bassist of the Dire Straits, but nowadays you're more likely to find him in an art studio.
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Five émigré artists who greatly enriched Britain's intellectual and creative scenes
Frieze Masters kicks off this week and several contributing galleries are using it to shine a spotlight on the artistic contribution of émigrés past and present.
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Sophia Money-Coutts: My family WhatsApp is already banging on about Christmas arrangements. Can I leave the group?
Where are we spending Christmas? Who gets the best bedroom, and whose turn is it to cook?
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The lives, wild parties and country houses of the Guinness family: Adrian Tinniswood on the Country Life Podcast
The writer and historian Adrian Tinniswood joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast.
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‘One remembers not to give the Queen a thump of joyful friendliness’: Remembering Norman Parkinson — revolutionary fashion photographer and Cecil Beaton’s only homegrown rival
Cecil Beaton might be the toast of London right now, with a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, but contemporary Norman Parkinson was always hot on his heels.
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‘She was a sort of fairy godmother to Country Life’: Mark Hedges, Tom Parker Bowles, Sophia Money-Coutts and more on the genius of Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper appeared in the pages of Country Life multiple times. Here, friends of the magazine reflect on time spent with her and what she meant to them.
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The new rat-pack: the Gen-Z team saving shearwaters and killing invasive species on a remote island in the Irish sea
Meet the twenty-somethings trading clubbing and pub quizzes for bird ringing and hard graft on the Calf of Man.
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Sophia Money-Coutts: 'Strictly Come Dancing' is back and I hate it. Do I have to pretend otherwise for the next three months?
Spoiler alert: Yes, you do have to pretend to like it.
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Martin Brudnizki, the face behind almost every five-star hotel interior, on his consuming passions
Grilled feta with honey, The Rest is History and a bit of Bossa Nova on a Friday night — Lotte Brundle asks what drives the Swedish designer.
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'Jammers blocking phone signals are, sadly, illegal in the UK': Sophia Money-Coutts on what to do when your mobile goes off in a theatre
Can you ever show your face again?
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'I’m here to say: We’re driving. We’re buying. And we’re not going anywhere': Meet the new gatekeepers of the motoring world
From the racetrack to the boardroom to the private garage, women are taking the inside line into automotive spaces that were once off-limits
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‘Lots of books, Scrabble, a pack of cards and James Norton. Oh, and some wine’: Alison Weir’s consuming passions
The Sunday Times bestselling author, 74, on her literary hero, her collection of jigsaw puzzles that she never has time to do and her celebrity crush.
