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Countrystride

Countrystride

A celebration of the landscapes, culture, heritage and people of Cumbria and the Lake District.

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170 episodes

  1. #170: Acorn Bank & the apples of Cumbria 47:53
  2. #169: Carrock Fell – Great mountain days 55:16
  3. #168: Mardale – Flooding of a valley 54:20
  4. #167: The story of Cumbrian iron 1:02:16
  5. #166: The real reivers – Hidden history of the Debatable Land 54:07
  6. Countrystride #165: Wool, Wine & Wordsworth – Hawkshead and its remarkable Grammar School 54:03
  7. #164: Maryport and The Vanishing Age of Sail 54:29
  8. #163: Walla Crag – A short history of Lake District guidebooks 56:11
  9. #162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays 55:06
  10. #161: Donald Campbell – Speed king of Coniston 1:02:30
  11. #160: Vicars of the fells 1:07:07
  12. #159: Blackwell – Arts & Crafts in Lakeland 46:30
  13. #158: Haystacks – How Wainwright changed our lives 1:06:00
  14. #157: A Cumbrian Christmas Cracker – December 2025 57:33
  15. #156: Kurt Schwitters – From the international avant-garde to exile in Ambleside 50:53
  16. #155: The Lakeland Angler – On Derwent Water with Eric Hope 1:03:16
  17. #154: Rory Stewart: 'Middleland' – Letters from Britain’s most rural constituency 1:02:03
  18. #153: Monasteries, mining and manhunts – A 10,000 year history of Seatoller 59:35
  19. #152: The Lost Paths – Jack Cornish from The Ramblers 56:21
  20. #151: Eycott Hill – Landscape in recovery 1:03:48
  21. That's all for now: By Styhead Tarn 1:18:52
  22. #149: Hostelling in the Lakes 1:00:09
  23. #148: Tom Stephenson and Thomas Arthur Leonard: Footsteps to the Lakes 54:04
  24. #147: Last of its kind – Eskdale Mill 50:41
  25. #146: The lead mines of Nenthead 47:24
  26. #145: The Westmorland Dales – A century of farming memories 1:06:23
  27. #144: Gavin Capstick – New CEO of the Lake District National Park 59:58
  28. #143: Robert Southey – The neglected Lake Poet 56:51
  29. #142: Review of 2024 1:44:02
  30. #141: A Cumbrian Christmas Cracker 54:20
  31. #140: The owls of Grasmere, with Polly Atkin 54:13
  32. #139: Gowbarrow Fell with Fix the Fells 55:40
  33. #138: Running int' fells - A brief history of fell-running, with Peter Todhunter 51:14
  34. #137: Voices from the changing commons 1:00:32
  35. #136: Rebecca Smith in Grizedale – Lives of the working class countryside 46:39
  36. #135: Phoebe Smith – Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths 54:17
  37. #134: The Scafells – Hidden views and curious histories 59:47
  38. #133: Whitehaven - A remarkable history 54:05
  39. #132: Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps 1:00:37
  40. #131: The Atlantic rainforests of Borrowdale 1:04:20
  41. #130: Goldscope – The wealth of Newlands 1:02:49
  42. #129: Loughrigg Fell: Tales of a small mountain 58:44
  43. #128: The lost history of Brampton coal 56:56
  44. #127: Matt Staniek: Saving Windermere 51:29
  45. #126: Pubs of Cumbria: When communities save their pubs 51:00
  46. #125: Nature friendly farming champion: James Robinson from Strickley 56:48
  47. 124: 778 ascents of Helvellyn, with fell top assessor Jon Bennett 35:27
  48. 123: Barrow-in-Furness – A tale of iron and ships, hair and shops 58:47
  49. #122: Limestone of the Westmorland Dales 53:31
  50. 121: A history of paper-making on the River Kent 52:10