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CountrySlide

CountrySlide

Written by: SideCountry Network
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CountrySlide is a podcast that looks at farming, conservation, wild food and life in the British countryside.


Hosted by Richard Negus, Callum McInerney-Riley and Richard Prideaux.Negus, McInerney-Riley, Prideaux, SideCountry Biological Sciences Science
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  • 96: Sunday Roasts, Seasonal Food and Hash Browns

    96: Sunday Roasts, Seasonal Food and Hash Browns
    Oct 9 2026
    Harvest Festival is here, which gets Richard Negus and Callum McInerney-Riley wondering whether any of us actually know what is in season anymore.

    After an opening involving harvest hymns, Sunday school, Sandhurst church services and the possibility of a religious denomination based around lager, they eventually get onto food.

    Why can you buy asparagus and strawberries all year round? Have supermarkets disconnected us from the seasons? And why aren't we better at celebrating the particular foods grown in particular places, rather than simply importing the same things whenever we fancy them?

    There is a December blackberry cheesecake, the defence of the Sunday roast, memories of proper British food and some fairly unpleasant processed food from childhood. Richard remembers bedrooms full of stored apples, they discuss pickling and preserving gluts, and eventually conclude that the easiest gateway into eating British may simply be a full English breakfast.

    Richard also has details of the Big Breckland Breakfast in aid of rural mental health charity YANA.

    Useful links:
    • SideCountry
    • SideCountry Network on Patreon
    • Big Breckland Breakfast
    • YANA: Rural Mental Health Support
    • British Food Fortnight


    DISCLAIMER
    Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.
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    33 mins
  • 95: Cheeseburgers and Old Tools

    95: Cheeseburgers and Old Tools
    Oct 2 2026
    This week, CountrySlide comes from somewhere between the burger van and the chainsaw demonstrations at APF 2026.

    Richard Prideaux is joined by forestry contractor and SideCountry writer Nick Adams for a wander around the 50th anniversary show at Ragley Estate, where the machinery is enormous, the fish and chips cost £16.50 and somebody appears to be selling a 16-foot shovel.

    They compare APF with the Game Fair, consider the financial commitment involved in some seriously expensive forestry machinery and attempt to record a podcast while seemingly every chainsaw manufacturer in Britain starts a demo nearby.

    Along the way there are broken brush cutters, George Browne attempting to handle tools, a chance meeting with a Richard Negus fan, Nick's latest SideCountry article, beavers, strange Warwickshire road names and the discovery that the forestry world is small enough that somebody at every stand appears to know somebody else.

    All recorded with the 'gentle' background ambience of petrol engines, tannoys and two men waiting for their cheeseburgers.


    You can contact us on social media, using the messaging system on patreon or emailing - contact@countryslide.co.uk

    Links
    -APF Exhibition
    -Forestry Contracting Association
    -Nick Adams: Rewilding Is No Panacea
    -Morakniv Woodcarving Knife 106
    -Grizzly Peak Enterprises axe scabbards
    - T-shirts are still available on - store.sidecountry.co.uk
    - Sign up to our newsletter - The Rural Register
    - SideCountry Network
    - Negus' book tour dates can be found here

    DISCLAIMER
    Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.
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    24 mins
  • 94: Moths, Myths and Big Cats

    94: Moths, Myths and Big Cats
    Sep 25 2026
    Content note: This episode includes discussion of suicide and mental health.

    This week, Callum considers building a moth trap, Richard Negus explains the existence of "hyper moth season", and Richard Prideaux admits to a surprisingly strong dislike of small dusty insects.

    From there, things drift into some of Britain's stranger countryside folklore. There is the Owlman of Cornwall, Cornish knockers, Hangman's Hill, Black Shuck, the Essex Serpent and the question of why some parts of the country seem to accumulate far more weird stories than others.

    Eventually they arrive at the modern rural legend that refuses to disappear: big cats in the British countryside. Were panthers and other exotic cats genuinely released decades ago? Could any still be out there? And if they were, wouldn't one of the country's gamekeepers have found one by now?

    Patrons also get the aftershow, featuring an accidental rally stage in an ageing Freelander, lions roaring beside a Suffolk marsh and Callum having a professionally awkward moment while photographing a politician.

    Useful links:
    The DPJ Foundation
    The Farming Community Network
    RABI
    Samaritans
    Butterfly Conservation: How to make your own moth trap
    Butterfly Conservation: Finding and recording moths
    Support SideCountry

    DISCLAIMER
    Views are those of individual speakers and do not necessarily represent SideCountry, its presenters, contributors, partners or sponsors. For general information and entertainment only. Laws, seasons, access and guidance change; check official sources, obtain permission and act within your competence.
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    44 mins
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