Countrystride

Arts & Culture Podcasts

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

Episodes

#168: Mardale – Flooding of a valley

#167: The story of Cumbrian iron

#166: The real reivers – Hidden history of the Debatable Land

Countrystride #165: Wool, Wine & Wordsworth – Hawkshead and its remarkable Grammar School

#164: Maryport and The Vanishing Age of Sail

#163: Walla Crag – A short history of Lake District guidebooks

#162: Eleanor Simpson & The Grasmere Dialect Plays

#161: Donald Campbell – Speed king of Coniston

#160: Vicars of the fells

#159: Blackwell – Arts & Crafts in Lakeland

#158: Haystacks – How Wainwright changed our lives

#157: A Cumbrian Christmas Cracker – December 2025

#156: Kurt Schwitters – From the international avant-garde to exile in Ambleside

#155: The Lakeland Angler – On Derwent Water with Eric Hope

#154: Rory Stewart: 'Middleland' – Letters from Britain’s most rural constituency

#153: Monasteries, mining and manhunts – A 10,000 year history of Seatoller

#152: The Lost Paths – Jack Cornish from The Ramblers

#151: Eycott Hill – Landscape in recovery

That's all for now: By Styhead Tarn

#149: Hostelling in the Lakes