{"id":26966,"date":"2023-05-09T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/?p=144549"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:35:30","slug":"podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/rss_feed\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: A quest for rare wildflowers in the Avon Gorge \u2013 with Mike Dilger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join Mike Dilger and the Plodcast team for a trip into the perilous Avon Gorge in search of some of Britain’s rarest wildflowers <\/p>

By Fergus Collins\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 09 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In the first episode of a new season, the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah and Jack meet up with naturalist and One Show regular Mike Dilger to search for some of Britain\u2019s rarest plants in the magnificent Avon Gorge on the edge of Bristol.<\/p>\n\nAlong the way Mike shares some astonishing stories from his quest to find 1000 plant species in the UK in the course of a single year. His book about this adventure is called\u00a0<a class=\""c-link"\" href=\"\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/one-thousand-shades-of-green-9781472993625\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-stringify-link=\""https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/one-thousand-shades-of-green-9781472993625\/"\" data-sk=\""tooltip_parent"\">1000 Shades of Green<\/a>\u00a0and is published by Bloomsbury.<\/p>\nThis is episode 1 of season 16: Get Active in Nature.<\/p>\nContact the Plodcast team and send your sound recordings of the countryside to:\u00a0<a class=\""c-link"\" href=\"editor@countryfile.com"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-stringify-link=\""mailto:editor@countryfile.com"\" data-sk=\""tooltip_parent"\">editor@countryfile.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nIf read out on the show, you could WIN a Plodcast Postbag prize of a wildlife- or countryside-themed book chosen by the team.<\/p>\nVisit the Countryfile Magazine website:\u00a0<a class=\""c-link"\" href=\"\/\/countryfile.com\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-stringify-link=\""http:\/\/countryfile.com"\" data-sk=\""tooltip_parent"\">countryfile.com<\/a><\/p>\nWrite to us:<br\/>\nPlodcast, Countryfile<br\/>\nEagle House<br\/>\nBristol BS1 4ST<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join Mike Dilger and the Plodcast team for a trip into the perilous Avon Gorge in search of some of Britain’s rarest wildflowers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26967,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger.jpg",2048,1536,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger-1024x768.jpg",800,600,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/05\/podcast-a-quest-for-rare-wildflowers-in-the-avon-gorge-with-mike-dilger.jpg",2048,1536,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Join Mike Dilger and the Plodcast team for a trip into the perilous Avon Gorge in search of some of Britain's rarest wildflowers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}