This week we're relaxing to a delightful piece of writing about nightingales by Dominic Couzens accompanied by the birds themselves – and read by Fergus Collins. Nightingales is from a collection of BBC Countryfile Magazine articles published new book Countryfile: A Year in the Countryside introduced by John Craven and edited by podcast host Fergus Collins.
BBC Countryfile Magazine's Sound Escapes are a weekly audio postcard from the countryside to help you relax and transport you somewhere beautiful, wherever you happen to be.
Read by Fergus Collins.
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Sound Escape 142: Listening to a storm outside while sitting indoors by the fire
219: Meet Mark Beech – the new series editor of the Countryfile TV programme
Sound Escape 141: Pause beside a roaring and refreshing mountain stream
218: Spend an evening in the company of a deer stalker in southern England
Sound Escape 140: The dreamy sound of the autumn meadow
217: Hear the mysterious and magical songs of trees – with musician Tiny Leaves
Sound Escape 139: Relax to the patterning of rain on autumn leaves
216: Dark tales from a hillfort in deepest Herefordshire
Sound Escape 138: Take a wander around a bustling harbourside
215: Into the Deep Dark Wood with children's author Julia Donaldson
Sound Escape 137: Enter a trance-like state to the song of a cicada in a French garden
214: A quest to find a mysterious standing stone in a Welsh desert
Sound Escape 136: The delicious sound of rain on a porch while you shelter inside
213: Join the Plodcast team as they look forward to a new season of adventures in the wild countryside
Sound escape 135: A lazy stroll along a beach of shingle in the sunshine
212: A charity hike through the Wye Valley – on the hottest day of the year
Sound Escape 134: Pure clear water tumbles over a waterfall in a Irish fairy glen
211: War, peace and woodpeckers in France's Ardennes forests
Sound Escape 133: A heady summer's afternoon serenaded by goldfinches
210: Walking St Patrick's Way 4: Biking in Tollymore Forest
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