The Country Life Podcast

Charlie Bigham has been making meals for almost 30 years.

Charlie Bigham: The man behind the meals on food, farming, and why cooking his lasagne takes three hours

Who doesn't love a Charlie Bigham fish pie or tikka masala? We spoke to the main man on the Country Life podcast to learn the secrets behind his famous food and hear more about his new cookbook.

Cooking baked beans in an Aston Martin, rubbing shoulders with Beyoncé and sneaking onto yachts at Monaco, with Adam Hay-Nicholls

The motoring and travel journalist Adam Hay-Nicholls joins James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast this week.

By James Fisher Published 2 September 24
The Spice Girls, The Stage and the state of the Arts, with Alistair Smith

The Stage editor Alistair Smith joins James Fisher on the Country Life podcast this week to talk about the performing arts.

By James Fisher Published 26 August 24
How to live like a Tudor, and other stories, with Ruth Goodman

Historian and author Ruth Goodman joins James Fisher to discuss her life and work, the importance of working class history and how to cook on an open fire.

By James Fisher Published 19 August 24
David Messum: Whimsical tales from the life of one of Britain's greatest art dealers

David Messum joins Country Life to discuss his 60-year career in the art world.

By James Fisher Published 13 August 24
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.

By Toby Keel Published 5 August 24

Pembrokeshire is top of Liz's list for places to go in Britain.

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.

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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Charlie Bigham: The man behind the meals on food, farming, and why cooking his lasagne takes three hours

Cooking baked beans in an Aston Martin, rubbing shoulders with Beyoncé and sneaking onto yachts at Monaco, with Adam Hay-Nicholls

The Spice Girls, The Stage and the state of the Arts, with Alistair Smith

How to live like a Tudor, and other stories, with Ruth Goodman

David Messum: Whimsical tales from the life of one of Britain's greatest art dealers

From Tudors and Georgians to pet monkeys in Roman Britain: Matt Thompson of English Heritage on telling the stories of the past

How to use the home to explain the past, the present and the future, with Sonia Solicari

'If you get 12 great photographs a year, you're doing well': Charlie Waite on the secrets of landscape photography

'What else can you do but say "it's completely disgusting"?': Britain's worst new buildings, with Charlie Baker and the Carbuncle Cup

Have you been doing holidays all wrong for years?

The 12 most iconic paintings in The National Gallery, by gallery curator Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper

'Nothing wrong with a bit of furore': An insider's guide to judging the Chelsea Flower Show, by RHS senior judge James Alexander-Sinclair

Isabella Tree on how rewilding took the Knepp Estate from a ruin in the red to a miracle of Nature

When the King and Queen edited Country Life, by the editor who guided them every step of the way

Millie Pilkington: Photographing dogs, movie stars and the Royal Family

Everything that's wrong with housing in Britain — and how to put it right

Behind the scenes at Blenheim Palace, from the £40m leaky roof to towing visitors stuck in muddy fields

Emma Sims-Hilditch: The reinvention of the country house

The Badminton Horse trials at 75

The real meaning of Easter, and how to make a vicar's dog collar from a Bounty bar

The architect whose grand designs bring inspiration and beauty to the British countryside

What I grow in my garden, by Country Life's gardens editor Tiffany Daneff

Podcast: How we choose the Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, craftspeople and garden designers

Fiona Stafford: The myth of the unchanging countryside