Country Life

Country Life magazine has been celebrating the best of life in Britain for over 126 years, from the castles and cottages that dot the land to the beautiful countryside around us.

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor: Saving swifts, naked protests and the bird that nested in my hair
Jun 9, 2025 – 26:04
Simon Armitage: "I've tried getting AI to write poems — and they've all been reassuringly awful"
Jun 2, 2025 – 30:01
Poppy Okotcha: The model-turned-gardener who swapped the catwalk for the vegetable patch
May 26, 2025 – 25:11
What you absolutely must see at the Chelsea Flower Show 2025, from the King's new rose to the 'perfect' garden
May 19, 2025 – 34:11
Tony Juniper: Saving the world, breeding budgies and why the King is 'the most influential environmentalist of all time'
May 12, 2025 – 31:28
Louis D. Hall: Crossing the Alps, sailing the Atlantic in a glorified bathtub and bringing sanity to how we live with horses
May 5, 2025 – 32:00
George Monbiot: 'Farmers need stability and security... Instead, they're contending with chaos'
Apr 28, 2025 – 41:05
Vintage tractors and memories of summers past, with Oliver Godfrey
Apr 23, 2025 – 27:00
Melissa Harrison: The accidental nature writer who became an accidental nature app developer
Apr 14, 2025 – 31:12
The remarkable history of Britain and its animals, with Karen Jones
Apr 7, 2025 – 28:00
Chloe Dalton: The woman who swapped top-level geopolitics to rescue a baby hare, and had her life changed forever
Mar 31, 2025 – 36:05
The photographer on a 15-year quest to find the most incredible doors in London, with Cath Harries
Mar 24, 2025 – 30:31
Britain's whale boom and and the predator that's far scarier than a great white shark with Dan Abbott, aka Shark Man Dan
Mar 17, 2025 – 32:15
The timeless elegance of English country house style, with Guy Goodfellow and Steven Rodel
Mar 10, 2025 – 34:33
Eleanor Doughty: The secret lives of the aristocracy in Britain
Mar 3, 2025 – 34:41
Patrick Galbraith: Dukes, drug dealers, nudists, and the truth about access to Britain's countryside
Feb 24, 2025 – 27:42
Gareth Dennis: The truth about HS2 that you never knew until it was too late
Feb 17, 2025 – 37:29
The best places to visit in 2025 and hunting for the Ark of the Covenant, with Lonely Planet's Tom Hall
Feb 4, 2025 – 39:06
Marina Gibson: The angler extraordinaire on salmon fishing, conservation and bagpipes on the Tay
Jan 27, 2025 – 40:17
Mushroom gin, Lego houses, and Dull Men (and women), with James May
Dec 16, 2024 – 29:37
Champagne with fish and chips, and what to drink at Christmas with Oscar Dodd of Fortnum & Mason
Dec 2, 2024 – 36:44
Kelvin Fletcher: From Strictly to sheep dip
Nov 25, 2024 – 23:34
Henrietta Spencer-Churchill: My life at Blenheim Palace
Nov 18, 2024 – 25:41
The science behind how Nature can heal us, and how it's easier than you think, with Professor Miles Richardson
Nov 11, 2024 – 33:14
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen: Changing rooms, velvet and leather, and growing old disgracefully
Nov 4, 2024 – 32:13
Louise Davidson: Haunted houses, psychic aunts, Gothic novels and writing at night with the lights off
Oct 28, 2024 – 33:12
Do leopards hunt in packs, and other frequently asked questions on travel, with Rosie Paterson
Oct 21, 2024 – 34:30
Nicole Salvesen and Mary Graham: 'We're designing houses for the next 50 years'
Oct 14, 2024 – 36:03
The truth about growing up in a castle, with Cosmo Linzee Gordon
Oct 7, 2024 – 30:59
Poems about pies, the foul-mouthed parrot upstaging Margaret Atwood and starting World War III via Desert Island Discs: Ian McMillan on the Country Life Podcast
Sep 30, 2024 – 33:54
Literature, landscape and bending rivers, with Vicky and Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Sep 23, 2024 – 35:04
Lucy Shepherd: Britain's most intrepid young explorer on trekking the Amazon
Sep 16, 2024 – 31:21
Charlie Bigham on food, farming and why it takes three hours to make the perfect lasagne
Sep 9, 2024 – 32:14
Adam Hay-Nicholls: How to sneak onto a yacht at the Monaco GP, rub shoulders with Beyoncé and accidentally buy a Bentley
Sep 2, 2024 – 25:33
The Spice Girls, The Stage and the state of the Arts, with Alistair Smith
Aug 26, 2024 – 33:00
How to live like a Tudor, and other stories, with Ruth Goodman
Aug 19, 2024 – 26:51
David Messum: Whimsical tales from the life of one of Britain's greatest art dealers
Aug 12, 2024 – 30:01
From Tudors and Georgians to pet monkeys in Roman Britain: Matt Thompson of English Heritage on telling the stories of the past
Aug 5, 2024 – 32:02
Lady Violet Manners on the past, present and future of our heritage
Jul 29, 2024 – 31:47
The best beaches in Britain with Chris Haslam, the man who's just visited 543 of them
Jul 22, 2024 – 37:10
Buckingham Palace, Taylor Swift, and how to get your house featured in Country Life, with John Goodall
Jul 15, 2024 – 35:01
The accidental invention of the teenager and other stories from the history of the home, with Sonia Solicari
Jul 8, 2024 – 31:30
Charlie Waite: Britain's greatest landscape photographer on the secrets of his art
Jul 1, 2024 – 32:06
The worst new buildings in Britain, with Charlie Baker
Jun 24, 2024 – 30:34
What you need to know before you move house, by property expert Annabel Dixon
Jun 17, 2024 – 27:54
Why you've been doing holidays wrong for years
Jun 10, 2024 – 27:07
Why does Wales exist, and 46 more questions about the borders of the world, with Jonn Elledge
Jun 3, 2024 – 33:54
The 12 most iconic paintings in the National Gallery
May 27, 2024 – 30:03
An insider's guide to judging the Chelsea Flower Show
May 20, 2024 – 37:04
Isabella Tree: How rewilding took the Knepp Estate from a ruin in the red to a miracle of Nature
May 13, 2024 – 38:07