The Country Life Podcast
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From Tudors and Georgians to pet monkeys in Roman Britain: Matt Thompson of English Heritage on telling the stories of the past
Matt Thompson of English Heritage joins the Country Life Podcast.
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How to use the home to explain the past, the present and the future, with Sonia Solicari
The Director of the Museum of the Home comes on to the Country Life Podcast to chat about all things house and home.
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'If you get 12 great photographs a year, you're doing well': Charlie Waite on the secrets of landscape photography
The world-renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite joins the Country Life Podcast.
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'What else can you do but say "it's completely disgusting"?': Britain's worst new buildings, with Charlie Baker and the Carbuncle Cup
The Carbuncle Cup returns after a six-year hiatus. Competition judge and magazine editor Charlie Baker speaks to James Fisher about why pointing out bad architecture matters.
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Have you been doing holidays all wrong for years?
Author and journalist Liz Schaffer joins the Country Life Podcast to talk about how 'Slow Travel' can help you make the most of your time off — and what she discovered while touring 22 of Britain's most beautiful off-the-track places.
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The 12 most iconic paintings in The National Gallery, by gallery curator Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper joins the Country Life Podcast to share how she and the team at the National Gallery picked the 12 most iconic pieces from the collection to celebrate the gallery's 200th anniversary.
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'Nothing wrong with a bit of furore': An insider's guide to judging the Chelsea Flower Show, by RHS senior judge James Alexander-Sinclair
James Alexander-Sinclair comes to the Country Life podcast to talk about his career in gardening, and his two decades spent as one of the top judges at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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Isabella Tree on how rewilding took the Knepp Estate from a ruin in the red to a miracle of Nature
Isabella Tree tells the incredible tale of Britain's first rewilding project.
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Millie Pilkington: Photographing dogs, movie stars and the Royal Family
Portrait photographer Millie Pilkington joins James Fisher on the Country Life podcast.
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Everything that's wrong with housing in Britain — and how to put it right
Nicholas Boys Smith speaks to James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast about how we can plan and build houses and towns which work for everybody.
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Behind the scenes at Blenheim Palace, from the £40m leaky roof to towing visitors stuck in muddy fields
Emily Spencer of Blenheim Palace joins the Country Life Podcast to give a glimpse in to what it takes to keep a UNESCO World Heritage site up and running with 6,000 visitors a day coming through the hallowed halls.
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Emma Sims-Hilditch: The reinvention of the country house
Interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch joins the Country Life Podcast.
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The Badminton Horse trials at 75
Country Life's Kate Green joins the podcast to talk about the tale of how the world's best three-day eventing competition came to be.
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The real meaning of Easter, and how to make a vicar's dog collar from a Bounty bar
Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy joins James Fisher on the podcast to talk about life in the church — how he came to the profession in later life, what it was like being a priest in the pandemic, and his life as a writer and reverend.
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The architect whose grand designs bring inspiration and beauty to the British countryside
Richard Hawkes joins James Fisher to talk about architecture, the British landscape, and what it's like to see your own house appear on Grand Designs.
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What I grow in my garden, by Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff
Tiffany Daneff talks about her life, her career as a gardening writer, and what she plants in her own space at home.
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Podcast: Britain's best architects, interior designers, craftspeople and garden designers
Giles Kime joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to explain how he and the team come up with the definitive list of country house specialists in Britain.
