S2 Ep38: The Best of the Walks Around Britain podcast – the Pennine Way

Andrew White talks to walker Rose Hakin and writer Damian Hall about their experiences of walking the Pennine Way, and adventurer Paul Rose chats to Andrew about his BBC TV series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Pennine Way. The Walks Around Brita...

Soller – We're All Going on an Aural Holiday

Take your ears on a binaural summer holiday through the Mallorcan town of Soller, from sunrise to sundown. The sleepy town awakes into market day, and tourists arrive at the Miro-decorated train station before climbing aboard the tram that runs through the...

S2 Ep37: Fiona Russell on surviving lockdown as an outdoor writer and Oliver Smith on Snowdon

Andrew White chats to the creator of the Fiona Outdoors website - Fiona Russell - about surviving lockdown when you are an outdoors writer and blogger. And travel writer Oliver Smith discusses his experience of one of the busiest mountains in the world sud...

S2 Ep36: "Behind The Lens" with outdoor photographer Jon Sparks

In the first of an occasional series "Behind The Lens", Andrew talks to Jon Sparks about how he got into outdoor photography, and talks us through the story behind three of his favourite photographs. The images talked about in the podcast are here... http...

6 Songs from Season 5

A selection of unique performances recorded on location for Folk on Foot by Frank Turner, Kitty Macfarlane, Chris Wood, Johnny Flynn, Ninebarrow and O’Hooley and Tidow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

S2 Ep35: Favourite walks with Cumbrian Rambler Beth Pipe and TV travel presenter Alex Outhwaite

Andrew White chats to the writer and broadcaster Beth Pipe - otherwise known as Cumbrian Rambler - about her writing career, her love of the outdoors and gets her favourite walks in Cumbria. And TV travel presenter Alex Outhwaite talks about walking and ho...

Household Gods

Composer Iain Chambers’s celebration of the domestic sound world, starting in the present day before travelling back in time.Lockdown gave us the excuse to consider our own home environments in a new way. Household Gods takes this new focus further, exp...

O'Hooley & Tidow in the Colne Valley

Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow have an uncanny ability to move you to tears one moment then have you roaring with laughter the next. In summer 2020 they were planning to capitalise on the new found fame caused by having their song “Gentleman Jack” ...

Sounds of the Earth – October

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Flow Country of the Scottish Highlands to the Bristol Downs, via Chesil Beach and an East Sussex bluebell wood.With field recordings by Chris Watson, Timothy Dowling, Martin Handley, and Steve...

Ninebarrow at Nine Barrow Down

The multi award winning Dorset duo Ninebarrow take Matthew Bannister for a walk in the glorious countryside of the Isle of Purbeck. Their exquisite harmonies ring out across the Bronze Age burial mounds at Nine Barrow Down (which gave the band its name) as...

S2 Ep34: New Walks Around Britain Presenter Vikki Lee and trying to save the planet with Kate Rawles

Andrew White chats to one of the new presenters of Walks Around Britain - Vikkie Lee - to discover more about her walks and love of the great outdoors. And writer, lecturer and environmental campaigner Kate Rawles talks to Andrew about how she became an ou...

Penguins v Seals – Tristan da Cunha

With extraordinary close-up recordings of his life as a vet, the bird population, the wildlife, the sea and the shore, veterinarian Joe Hollins brings his time on the island of Tristan da Cunha to the ears of the Slow Radio listener.Joe has recorded over 2...

Johnny Flynn on the Hackney Marshes

In our first post lockdown episode, actor and musician Johnny Flynn takes Matthew Bannister for a walk on the Hackney Marshes, a huge expanse of public land which has no fewer than 88 football pitches alongside a nature reserve which has grown up in disuse...

Sounds of the Earth – September

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the beaches and forests of Costa Rica, to the shores of Loch Ballygrant on the Isle of Islay.With field recordings by Les Pratt, Bronwen Buckeridge, Chris Watson, and Stephanie Lyons.

Bonus Episode: Folk on Foot Festival 3: TOGETHER AGAIN: Highlights

Another extraordinary Bank Holiday Monday virtual Festival from Folk on Foot, this time re-uniting musicians who couldn’t play together during the lockdown. The Breath; Eliza Carthy and David Delarre; Johnny Flynn and his band; Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorl...

S2 Ep33: The England Coast Path with Stephen Neale and buying your own campsite with Sioned Bannister

Andrew White discovers about the history of the soon-to-be-opened England Coast Path with the writer Stephen Neale and what is it like to change your whole life and buy your own campsite to run? Andrew finds out from someone who did just that - Sioned Bann...

Chris Wood in Faversham

The award winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Wood has lived in Kent all his life. “If you keep moving around, how much can you trust your judgement?” he asks. “If you stop where you are, the world does eventually come to you.” Since the...

S2 Ep32: The Outdoor Trade Show 2019

Andrew White visits the Outdoor Trade Show - not in 2020, but in 2019. With 2020's event cancelled, Andrew dips into the library to find the interviews we did from 2019's Outdoor Trade Show. The Walks Around Britain podcast is presented by Andrew White an...

Sounds of the Earth – July

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - including a Swedish forest, a Dorset dawn chorus, and water lapping the shores of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.

Kitty Macfarlane on the Somerset Levels

Kitty Macfarlane is known for her pure voice, poetic song writing and passion for the natural world. On this unexpectedly sunny January walk, she and Matthew Bannister climb the historic Burrow Mump Hill. Here she sings a song inspired by the view, “Man ...