Exploring Hokkaido in Northern Japan

The landscape of the English South West is dominated by hedgerows - and in this episode Martin meets the people who are passionate about looking after these icons of the countryside. He also comes across an enthusiastic young rabbit-catcher who often works among the hedgerows of Devon and Somerset …

National Parks are celebrating 70 years of existence in the UK this year and in this podcast Martin revisits an award-winning series he wrote entitled The Contested Landscape. He talks to the first farmer in the world ever to be paid regular sums NOT to farm his land - and also visits a woman who h…

Martin meets a Dartmoor farmer who is so passionate about the South Devon breed of cattle, he has written a massive 900-page book about them. Colin Pearse laments for a world that has passed by - but also looks forward to the future of his favourite breed of cattle. In the podcast you can hear how …

Martin joins an epic voyage... The old ferry, The Duchess of Cocklemoor which our podcasts have visited before, has been converted to run on solar power thanks to a tiny but powerful electric motor installed by barefoot inventor Cedric Lynch. This episode reports on the very first public outing for…