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‘I thought I was going to be sick. I was very nervous about MasterChef’: Monica Galetti’s consuming passionsThe professional chef talks to Lotte Brundle about food, family and how fame came calling.
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Posh people do well on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! because they survived boarding school: Sophia Money-Coutt's snob's guide to reality television'One of my least favourite forms of snobbery is television snobbery,' says our weekly columnist — who also reveals what her favourite reality television shows are.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Winter weddings might just be better than their summer counterpartsAs our winters warm, so have Britons warmed to winter weddings. Just keep the fireplace well stocked.
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Katharine Hay, the woman who's walking the length and breadth of ScotlandTwo years and two thousand miles into her epic journey on foot around Scotland, The Scotsman's rural affairs correspondent Katharine Hay joins the Country Life Podcast.
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'I am blessed with many talents, most of which I can’t print, but taking a decent photograph is not one of them': How a camera-challenged Millennial fell in love with a landscapeA recent visit to Kinloch Lodge hotel was accompanied by a lesson in landscape photography.
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'Why do the Americans insist on calling a perfectly ordinary walk a hike?': A snob's guide to staying fitSophia Money-Coutts reveals her 'permissible forms of movement'. Spoiler alert: the gym and Zumba are out.
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1,000 issues and counting: Mark Hedges on two decades editing Country Life magazineCountry Life's 100th podcast celebrates Mark Hedges's 1,000th issue at the helm of one of Britain's best-loved magazines.
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Agatha Christie and the murder mystery: A bloody-good legacyKate Green takes a closer look at the goddess of the murder mystery, 100 years after the author was catapulted to literary stardom.
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Making sense of the cider soaked wassailThe cacophonous, cider-slinging midwinter tradition of wassailing is an ancient one that continues to this day. Laura Parker offers a toast to harvests anew
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Sophia Money-Coutts: A snob's guide to making it through Dry JanuaryScience says that one month without alcohol does make a difference — but at what cost, asks Sophia Money-Coutts.
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Our favourite Frontispieces of 2025Will Hosie takes a look back at some standout Frontispiece portraits from the previous 12 months.
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Actor Jennifer Garner on Diane Keaton, 'collecting women' — and her consuming passionsMatisse, Diane Keaton and her beloved childhood toy. Lotte Brundle finds out Jennifer Garner’s consuming passions.
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Britain's most entertaining (and a little bit salacious) country house scandals'Country houses seem to have harboured more than their fair share of scandals,' says Adrian Tinniswood, who recounts some of the most shocking.
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Mark Hedges: It's been an exceptional year for Country Life, but the hard work would be in vain without readers — and for that you have my very greatest thanksCountry Life's Editor-in-Chief reflects on 2025 and teases some of what's to come in 2026.
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'Herod’s catapult has been confiscated': The Nativity play that might be alright on the nightNever work with animals and children, they say, but surely it isn’t a proper Nativity without them?
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‘I wasn’t really sure that I wanted to be a ballet dancer’: The English National Ballet's prima ballerina on playing Clara in The Nutcracker and her consuming passionsLotte Brundle meets Ivana Bueno, who is dancing the role of Clara in The Nutcracker this year at the London Coliseum.
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Secrets from the world of whisky, from the 60-year-old bottle that sold for £650,000 to the tipple you get at the supermarketIn our last episode of 2025, James Fisher is joined on the Country Life Podcast by Kevin Balmforth and Andrew Simpson.
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'We begin making in May and start packing and despatching in November — it’s carnage': How the Cotswolds' favourite cake-makers get ready for ChristmasJessica White of the Meg Rivers Artisan Bakery makes it on to our list of our heroes of Christmas.
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The policeman turned goat-herder turned beautician, whose goats' milk soap became a sensationBeautiful soaps always make a wonderful gift, and that's why the goats' milk soap-maker Nick King is one of our heroes of Christmas.
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Meg Walters: The BBC's 1995 adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice' is the ultimate Millennial fairytaleThe BBC's 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s 'Pride and Prejudice' adaptation is 30 years old. Beloved by Millennials everywhere, it set a benchmark for period dramas that still stands today.
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‘Someone wanted a two metre block of ice with a cardboard cutout of Michael Bublé inside’: Ice sculpting is no chilled gigLotte Brundle visits an industrial freezer in Surrey to get to grips with what it takes to be a master ice sculptor.
