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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 Scienza Scienze biologiche
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  • 97: M&Ms, Yellowhammers and Hedges

    97: M&Ms, Yellowhammers and Hedges
    Oct 16 2026
    This week, Callum follows Richard Negus on another side quest, this time to Barkway Literary Festival, where Richard has somehow been entrusted with explaining hedges to a live audience.

    Before they get anywhere near the subject there are M&M riders, Gemma Collins, a broken heating system, an increasingly judgmental dog and a collection of male wasps apparently spending their final days getting drunk on ivy.

    Eventually Callum McInerney-Riley asks the fairly fundamental question: what actually is a hedge layer?

    Richard explains why hedgelaying is almost as old as farming itself, how cutting and laying a hedge encourages new growth at the base, and why something that can initially look suspiciously like a wildlife crime can become considerably better habitat within a couple of years.

    From there, the conversation broadens into the role of working farmland in nature recovery, why conservation has to work for the farm as well as the wildlife, and Richard's defence of farmers and gamekeepers whose work often involves managing both habitat and predators.

    All recorded in front of an actual literary festival audience, before Richard wanders off to sign copies of Words from the Hedge and discovers that bringing a pen might have been useful.

    Useful links:
    Support SideCountry on PatreonBarkway Literary Festival
    Words from the Hedge by Richard Negus
    National Hedgelaying Society
    High Suffolk Farm Cluster: Patrick Barker on nature-friendly farming
    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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    42 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
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