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 123: Soothing waves on shingle – on the Isle of Wight
200. Episode 200 Special: A quest for kingfishers in the heart of Bristol
Sound Escape 122: Chris Yates reads from the Secret Carp
199. A quest for skylark song in the Cotswold Hills with James MacDonald Lockhart
Sound Escape 121: A dreamy dawn chorus in a remote Scottish valley
198. A wander in a bird of prey sanctuary with Megan McCubbin
Sound Escape 120: Soothing waves rising and falling on a beach in Wester Ross
197. Why rewilding can save Britain's wildlife – an interview with Isabella Tree at Knepp Wildlands
Sound Escape 119: An astonishing nightingale duet in a Dorset woodland
196. A quest for nightingales at Knepp Wildlands in Sussex
Sound Escape 118: Relax to spring birdsong in a Dorset garden
195. A quest for peace with Charlotte Church in deepest Wales
Sound Escape 117: Celebrate the stunning dawn chorus at Knepp Wildlands
194. A quest to find St Patrick in Northern Ireland
Sound Escape 116: A stream sparkles through Silent Valley
193. An unlikely pilgrimage with Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton
Sound Escape 115: Wistful mistle thrushes and willow warbers in a Mendips vale
192. A quest for rare wildflowers in the Avon Gorge – with Mike Dilger
Sound Escape 114: Skylarks ascending over a field of barley
Sound Escape 113: Enjoy the stirring cacophony of a rook colony
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