The Plodcast Podcast
1) Sound Escape 253. Hear the voices of a million starlings going to roost
Dusk is imminent and you're standing on a raised path, an old abandoned railway line through the marshes. For the past 30 minutes vast uncountable flocks of starlings have poured overhead and settled ...Show More
2) 330. It's the Plodcast Christmas Special and team quiz 2025!
Join the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis β with special guest and quiz master Kevin Parr. As well as tackling Kev's now legendary Plodcast quiz, the team gather by the fire to reminisc...Show More
3) Sound Escape 252. Enjoy sunshine and peace along the seawall of the Bristol Channel
After climbing a few steps you're atop the sea wall and the vast skies and broad seascape of the Bristol Channel open before you. You're looking south from Wales across the water to Somerset and North...Show More
4) 329. Making a spun-iron frying pan at a family-run foundry in Shropshire
Plodcast host Fergus heads to Cleobury Mortimer in deeply rural Shropshire to visit the Netherton Foundry. Here, Neil and Sue Currie and their team make beautiful spun-iron cookware using traditional ...Show More
5) Sound Escape 251. Hear the song of the wind on the first icy morning of winter
A cold front has swept down from the north overnight but it's a bright morning over the frosty marshes. A breeze pushes ripples across a lagoon of deepest blue and then gently jostles the dead rushes ...Show More
6) 328. Hunting for mushrooms - and legendary animals - with Kevin Parr
Plodcast regular Kevin Parr joins host Fergus Collins for a charming mushroom hunting walk in a wooded Welsh valley. Along the way, as the foraging basket with treats, they discuss Kev's extraordinary...Show More
7) Sound Escape 250. Swollen by days of rain, the stream has a new song
After 36 hours of rain, the town floods and then the waters recede, surging down brooks such as this. You pause on a bridge above, hearing a stranger, bolder song in a stream you thought you knew so w...Show More
8) 327. Venture out onto the wild Essex marshes with author Michael J Warren
This week, we're heading to the bleakly beautiful Essex marshes to meet historian and birder Michael J Warren β and thousands of waders and wildfowl in this stunning area of big skies, haunting calls ...Show More
9) Sound Escape 249. The haunting calls of waders and wild geese on forgotten Essex coast
Deep in the Essex Marshes, you find solitude on a path that skirts marsh and lagoon. But you're not entirely alone β from the creeks and open water the fluting calls of waders and ducks and the deeper...Show More
10) 326. Join the Plodcast team for a round up of listener emails and nature chat
Join the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis in a wild corner of the centre of Bristol for a long-awaited Plodchat β a round-up of our nature adventures plus listener emails, recordings an...Show More