Country Life 27 March 2024
Country Life 27 March 2024 is our Easter special, featuring hedgehogs, Houghton Hall and our Editor's Easter Quiz.


Here's a look at some of what you'll find inside.
The Country Life Easter Message: Why we must settle for knowing only in part
The Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy encourages us to ask questions — even silly ones — as he muses on the story of the Resurrection
A prickly subject
Marianne Taylor examines how we can help to halt the worrying decline of the humble hedgehog, Britain’s favourite mammal
Country Life International
- John Lewis-Stempel reflects on an old way of life in rural France
- Russell Higham visits Mozart’s Italian muse
- Arabella Youens hails Mondrian’s De Stijl movement
- Tom Parker Bowles celebrates Greek cuisine
- Holly Kirkwood selects the best Iberian properties for sale
- Eileen Reid explores love and logic in Paris
Bold and beautiful
Charles Quest-Ritson is wowed by the woodland garden created during the past two decades at Broughton Grange, Oxfordshire
Home is where the art is
Iron-man Sir Antony Gormley is taking over Houghton Hall in Norfolk with 100 life-size figures, as Charlotte Mullins discovers
The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle’s favourite painting
The Dean of Westminster picks a striking work that is all about looking — and then looking again
A silent witness
In the first of two articles, John Goodall visits Lancing College Chapel, West Sussex, a masterpiece 154 years in the making
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The legacy: Roy Plomley
Kate Green tunes in for Roy Plomley’s Desert Island Discs
A real nest egg
John Lewis-Stempel marvels at one of the smallest, yet mightiest miracles in the natural world
Room with a pew
Your seat in church once told a lot about your status in the parish, reveals Andrew Green
Once more into the abyss
It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it: John Lewis-Stempel hauls an errant heifer from a ditch
The Editor’s Easter quiz
Spring has sprung — how many native wildflowers can you name?
Luxury
Hetty Lintell explores exquisite gilets, bespoke tailoring and sparkling aquamarine jewellery
Interiors
Giles Kime is armed with a crystal ball for his latest building project
Kitchen garden cook
Melanie Johnson on spinach
Don’t mock them
Plant a Philadelphus, says John Hoyland, and enjoy an explosion of blooms and scent this summer
And much more
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by HRH The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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The big reveal: A first look at Country Life's RHS Chelsea Flower Show stand
Interior designer Isabella Worsley reveals her plans for Country Life’s ‘outdoor drawing room’ at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
By Country Life
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Schreiber House, 'the most significant London townhouse of the second half of the 20th century', is up for sale
The five-bedroom Modernist masterpiece sits on the edge of Hampstead Heath.
By Lotte Brundle