S2 Ep31: Discovering Jersey and the Isles of Scilly

Andrew White visiting two island communities - Jersey and the Isles of Scilly. On Jersey, Andrew talks to Derek Hairon from Jersey Walk Adventures about the Moonwalk and to Hugh Gill about the islands' wonderful history.  On the Isles of Scilly, Andrew ...

Frank Turner on the Holloway Road

Frank Turner is a man of contrasts: the old Etonian who became a punk; the heavy metal fan who became a folk-influenced singer songwriter. On this walk through his old haunts on the Holloway Road in North London he reveals the inspiration for his change in...

S2 Ep30: The Legacy of Lockdown on walking and 365 Days Wild with Lucy McRobert

Andrew White talks about what the legacy of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 might be, with adventurer Jason Rawles and wildlife storyteller Lucy McRobert discusses all things nature with her book "365 Days Wild". Lucy's book "365 Days Wild" is available her...

Season 5 Trailer

A delicious taster of some of the amazing new episodes coming your way in season 5 of Folk on Foot. Recorded before the lockdown, we’ve been walking with Kitty Macfarlane on the Somerset Levels, Chris Wood in Faversham and Frank Turner on the Holloway Ro...

Bonus Episode: Seven Songs from Season 4

Featuring “Queen of Waters” by Nancy Kerr, “Scapa Flow 1919” by Kris Drever, “Sleeping Beauty” by Bella Hardy, “I’m a Woman on Wheels” by Peggy Seeger, “The Token” by Rachel Newton, “Walking Through Ithonside” by John Jones and th...

S2 Ep29: Caravan & Motorhome Show 2020 and Discovering Alderney

Andrew White visits the Caravan & Motorhome Show 2020 and Martin Batt talks to Andrew about the nature & history of the Channel Island of Alderney, and what it has in store for walkers. The Walks Around Britain podcast is presented by Andrew White...

The Flying Scotsman

A journey on the Flying Scotsman with privileged access to the driver on the footplate.

Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival 2 Highlights

On Monday 25th May – Spring Bank Holiday in the UK – we staged the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival 2 with an astonishing line up of artists. The show lasted for eight hours – but we have distilled it down to two hours of highlights, featuring: Cara ...

Bonus Episode: Jarlath Henderson at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls

Jarlath Henderson has been described as the “Jimi Hendrix of the uilleann pipes”.  He is also a fine singer and accomplished player of the whistle. At the age of 17 he became the youngest ever winner of the Radio 2 Young Folk award. He comes from Nort...

The Halyards of Woodbridge

Composer Iain Chambers takes a sound walk along Suffolk's River Deben, meeting avocets and curlew, and culminating in the musical sounds of Woodbridge boatyard.

Bonus Episode: Su-a Lee at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls

Su-a Lee is a classically trained cellist who loves breaking down musical barriers. With the group Mr McFall’s Chamber she’s played contemporary classical music in night clubs and she regularly collaborates with Scotland’s leading folk players.  She...

Rachel Newton at the Isle of Skye Festival of Small Halls

The Edinburgh-born harpist, fiddle player and singer Rachel Newton sings in both English and Gaelic and is a member of The Shee, The Furrow Collective and the Lost Words Spell Songs. We walked with her on the Isle of Skye in November 2019 where she was tak...

Bonus Episode: Front Room Festival Highlights

On Easter Bank Holiday Monday, April 13th 2020, we organised the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival - seven and a half hours of wonderful folk music from 15 top artists playing in their front rooms, linked by Matthew Bannister from his. Bella Hardy, Beth Po...

If you go down to the woods tonight

Have you ever wondered what goes bump in the woods at night? Hugh Huddy discovers the night time soundscape of a woodland in Suffolk by placing a binaural recording box in a tree and leaving it there overnight. Listening back to the recording, the secret l...

Rain On A Hot Tin Roof

An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow.Listen to the sounds of birds, mountain climbing, monks chanting as you go about your day. A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.

Bella Hardy in Edale

The singer, songwriter and fiddle player Bella Hardy takes Matthew for a rain-sodden walk through the majestic countryside of the Edale Valley in the Peak District where she was brought up and has now returned to live. Undaunted by the weather, they go to ...

From Dadar to the Stars

An intimate, breath-close binaural portrait of the intoxicating Indian city of Mumbai.

Seals and Selkie Folk

Writer and poet Susan Richardson invites us to a seal pupping beach on the Pembrokeshire coast; a world that has inspired tales of shape-shifting selkie folk and mermaids.We stand above a cove. The air is filled with the haunting cries of the grey seals be...

Peggy Seeger in Iffley

After a life on the road, folk legend Peggy Seeger has settled in the village of Iffley on the outskirts of Oxford.  In this episode she talks poignantly about her mother, a talented composer who died when she was fifty-three and Peggy was just eighteen. ...

Sounds of the Earth – February

A montage of music and natural sounds including whale song and Tundra swans.