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The best beaches in Britain, by the man who's just spend seven weeks visiting 583 of them
The Chief Travel Writer from the Sunday Times joins the podcast to talk about the best beach in the country, and how his dog got fooled by a northern rabbit.
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Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Jersey: Five of the best properties for sale in Country Life this week
Save a Grade I-listed abbey or move into a £17 million mansion on the Channel Island.
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Four bedrooms, tiered gardens and exquisite views over Fowey Harbour
The Old Vicarage is a charming Victorian clifftop villa with spectacular gardens and bags of character.
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A glorious Thames-side house a five-minute row from some of Britain's finest restaurants
Doannee House not only offers six bedrooms and 8,000sq ft of space, but also frontage to the River Thames and easy access to some of the nation's best restaurants.
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Six of the best homes for sale in Country Life this week, from Hertfordshire to Exmoor
The best of the best — as always found in the pages of Country Life.
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'The world's most joyful museum': Young V&A in East London wins top prize
The museum scooped the prestigious Museum of the Year award, the largest in the world, pocketing £120,000 after a three-year renovation.
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Coming soon: London's largest private residential terrace
This five-bedroom penthouse at The Whiteley in London's Queensway comes with a terrace of some 4,400sq ft. Yours for £39.5 million.
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Bentley sets new speed record, but underwater
The new Continental GT Speed spooled up its mighty hybrid powertrain and flew through a tunnel some 292 metres below the sea level. Why? Because why not.
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From a bungalow to riverside brilliance: a home on the Thames that lives up to its name
The River Haven in Thames Ditton might just be the best place in London to sit and watch the world go by.
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Lose yourself in nature in the heart of Truro at the former home of D.M. Thomas
Four bedrooms, half an acre of beautiful woodland gardens, and only a quarter of a mile from the town centre. D. M. Thomas didn't just know how to write books, but also choose places to live.
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Royal connections, rooms of resplendence and your very own airstrip: A glorious compact estate in Kent
For sale for the first time in 30 years, Mount Offham in Kent is steeped in history and offers the ultimate family home.
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How to use the home to explain the past, the present and the future, with Sonia Solicari
The Director of the Museum of the Home comes on to the Country Life Podcast to chat about all things house and home.
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A gorgeous Elizabethan manor with all the modern trimmings that may have been home to Anne Boleyn
Wymondley Bury is a 10-bedroom home where history meets comfort in Hertfordshire.
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Get away from it all at this period chalet that's mere seconds from the beach
Hawks Point House was first built in 1910, and has been getting better with each passing year.
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Bursting borders, blue windows, and a sense of perfection in the New Forest
At Stocks Hill near Burley, a five-bedroom family home seems like something out of a fairytale.
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'What else can you do but say "it's completely disgusting"?': Britain's worst new buildings, with Charlie Baker and the Carbuncle Cup
The Carbuncle Cup returns after a six-year hiatus. Competition judge and magazine editor Charlie Baker speaks to James Fisher about why pointing out bad architecture matters.
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A glorious Scottish island has come up for sale with a price tag of just £500,000
On the off chance you bump into Leo DiCaprio or Richard Branson, it's always good to have something in common to break the ice.
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A country house with dour façade which hides some of the most amazing Jacobean interiors you'll ever see
Reject modernity and embrace tradition on Melbourn Street in Royston.
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A Grade A-listed home in Scotland with its own antique shop for less than £1 million
At Inchmartine House, history breathes through the walls of this large and comfortable home.
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A seven-bedroom home near Wimbledon that will make all your modernist fantasies come true
Designed by Maxwell Fry, Miramonte is a delightful 1930s building situated in one of London's most enviable locations. It also looks amazing.
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A 300-year-old Jacobean mansion that comes with woodland, orchard and its own mini-village
Frome is where the heart is, so they say. It's easy to see why you might fall in love with this small estate called Selwood Manor in Somerset, mind.
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Something to stink about: Plant that smells 'like a garbage heap in high summer' blooms at Kew for only the third time
Two rare plants (Titan arum and Aristolochia goldieana) are both in bloom at the world famous gardens, but you'll have to be quick, as the flowers will only last for 48 hours.
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'Living lawmowers': How hungry hairy Hungarian hogs will help save the UK's most endangered butterfly
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Pigs and cows will help Butterfly Conservation maintain one of the last remaining breeding spots for the High Brown Fritillary butterfly.
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A Scottish island for sale with seals, seven houses, a lighthouse and its own pub
Plans for world domination? Hiding from the in-laws? Fancy watching some puffins? You can do it all on Sanda Island near the Mull of Kintyre.
