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The Country Life Podcast
Behind the scenes at Blenheim Palace, from the £40m leaky roof to towing visitors stuck in muddy fields
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Comment & Opinion
Jonathan Self: These are a few of my favourite things (audio version)
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Property
Could using a buying agent save you money?
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Art and Antiques
'A wonderful reminder of what the countryside could and should be': The 200-year-old watercolour of a world fast disappearing
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Interiors
Upon reflection: How to buy an antique mirror
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Property
Five staggering country homes, all commutable to London, from £2.5m to £18m
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Dogs & Animals
Rough collies: The dogs made famous by Lassie that are hardy, clever, agile, and 'good for the soul'
Property
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A gorgeous Victorian country house with its own private gate on to Windsor Great Park
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Britain's most expensive street outside London, where homes average £2.6 million — and a bare plot is up for sale at £5.5m
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A former racecourse in Cambridgeshire with 200 acres that is waiting for a new lease of life
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One of the 'prettiest little houses in London' for sale, right next door to the house where AA Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh
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A Norfolk home with six bedrooms and some of the finest interiors is up for sale for only the third time since the 1700s
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Music festivals and a family home — A musician's paradise at a Georgian rectory in the Piddle Valley
Interiors
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Interiors
The ancient decorative painting technique enjoying a revival 2,000 years after being the talk of Pompeii
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Interiors
Emma Sims-Hilditch: The reinvention of the country house
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Interiors
What to collect when you're collecting
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Interiors
The Dos and Don'ts of decorating your house free of inhibitions
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Architecture
The magnificent buildings of Lancing College
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Expert Gardening Tips
'Within a month, one was eaten by a tiger, one was burned alive, five disappeared and the sole survivor emerged with 7,000 specimens': The unique passion engendered by orchids
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Theatre, film & music
Curious Questions: Was music's famous 'Lady of the Nightingales' nothing more than a hoaxer?
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Finest gardens in Britain
The garden of Midsummer House: An Oxfordshire gem that's small but perfectly formed
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Travel
Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge: The west at its wildest, showiest self
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News
Getting a wiggle on: How 're-wiggling' our rivers can save our countryside
Nature
Travel
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The Carlyle hotel review: The New York hotel that's covered in stardust
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A converted reservoir in Devon that might be the UK's most interesting holiday home
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Elmley Nature Reserve – an island of nature in Kent that vibrates with birdsong
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The Fall foliage of New England and Canada, as witnessed from the deck of a cruise ship
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Estelle Manor review: The Oxfordshire hotel and private member's club that will appeal to honeymooners and families alike
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The Isle of Skye and the world’s last manual turntable ferry
Cars
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Curious Questions: Who was the first person to take a driving test?
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The Queen's old Range Rover — one which she used to pick up the Obamas — has come up for sale
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E-Types, Scotland's best beaches and the 'backwards-looking fantasy' of rewilding: Country Life's best features of 2023
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My 'Franken-Land Rover' has had three new chassis and using the indicators turns on the windscreen wipers. But I just can't get rid of it.
Food & Drink
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Tom Parker Bowles shares his sublime fish pie recipe, but with a few rules attached
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Jason Goodwin: When gaucho chic in Dorset becomes something 'between instrument of torture and decommissioned nuclear reactor'
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Asaparagus and prawn pappardelle with chorizo that sings of Spring
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Spring onion beignets that are perfect for dipping and dunking
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Patrick Galbaith: If you don't keep using your local pub and butcher, you won't have a community worthy of the name
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Curious Questions: Why do we eat hot cross buns at Easter?