Podcasts
Peak Experience podcasts bring the Peak District to your computer, iPod or MP3
player. Listen to interviews and features that travel across the Peak District
to explore the rich tapestry of stories about wildlife, the past and beautiful
landscapes.
You can listen to an individual podcast by clicking on one of the links at the
bottom of the page.
You can then open the podcast to listen to immediately while online or save it
to your computer for later. You can play the mp3 podcast in Windows Media Player,
iTunes, Real Player or any other audio player. Alternatively you can copy the
saved podcast to your MP3 player. We recommend that you choose the mp3 version
unless you have iTunes. The m4a version has embedded photos which show in iTunes
and change automatically while you listen.
If you would like to subscribe to our series of podcasts you can click one of
these two RSS feed links.
Each of these feeds will subscribe you to Peak Experience podcasts which will
notify you of a new podcast the next time you go online. If you click on subscribe
you can add the feed to your browser's feed favourites. Alternatively, you copy
and paste the URL of the feed into a feed reader.
You can also subscribe in iTunes, My Yahoo and Google Reader.
To see the embedded photos in iTunes go to View and select Show Artwork. All
Peak Experience podcasts are free.
Featured Podcast
Red Grouse - Soap opera of the moorlands
Red Grouse in the Peak District
Heather Moorland of the Dark Peak
Summer fires can threaten the grouse
Follow the life and death story of the red grouse on the National Trust's High
Peak moorlands.
Between May and October 2008 we will be bringing you 6 monthly episodes in the
soap opera of the Peak District moorlands' most iconic bird.
We will follow the bird from brooding hens nesting with their eggs in spring
to young birds facing winter taking in the shooting season that begins on the
12th August. Interviews with National Trust staff, tenants and gamekeepers will
open up the world of moorland management that maintains healthy populations of
red grouse.
Every year thousands of young red grouse are born on the Peak District moorlands,
the most southern part of their range. The red grouse stays on the moors all year
round. Its distinctive call and flight are a distinctive part of the moorlands.
The National Trust manages the moors for the grouse, promoting the growth of heather
and revegetating eroded peat. There is a short article about Geoff Eyre, our interviewee
in episode 4, in
the Guardian on the 9th April.
The series is produced by Peak Experience in partnership with the National Trust.
Mike Innerdale and Carl Hawk interviewed by Maria Gabrialla
National Trust Warden Land Rover on Derwent Moor
Picture of the Gamekeeper
What is a Podcast?
A podcast is an MP3 audio file that you can play on your computer or MP3 player
in an audio playing application such as iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player.
You can click on the download link to play each podcast episode in one of these
applications and save it to your computer. You can subscribe to receive the latest
episodes automatically as soon as they're available. You can stop receiving the
files at any time.
In order to subscribe you need an internet connection and a web browser with
an inbuilt Feed Reader. Downloadable Feed Readers are also available free of charge.
The web browser or downloaded software can check the Peak Experience website for
new episodes and automatically download them for you. iTunes also has this function.
If you listen to audio using Windows Media Player or Real Player we recommend
you choose the mp3 version. For those with iTunes you can listen to either the
MP3 or the AAC/m4a version. The latter has embedded photos that automatically
appear in iTunes as the podcast plays. To subscribe to either feed in iTunes click
on one of the RSS feeds below and copy the URL. In iTunes go to Advanced, select
Subscribe to Podcasts and paste the URL into the iTunes box that appears. If you
have chosen the AAC/m4A feed and want to see the embedded photos in iTunes go
to View and select Show Artwork.
Making the Mam Tor Audio Trail
Peak Experience podcasts talk to some of the people behind the Mam Tor Audio
Trail. The trail guides adults and children around the magnificent Mam Tor and
its prehistoric hillfort, using fictional characters and drama to bring the ancient
past alive. The trail invites you to travel back in time and explore Mam Tor in
the company of some of the people who may have lived on Mam Tor 3,000 years ago.
The podcast features excerpts from the trail plus interviews with award-winning
theatre writer Simon Corble and National Trust property manager Mike Innerdale.
Duration: 00:07:30
Making the Mam Tor Audio Trail (MP3 File - 7031.6 KB)
Red Grouse Podcast Episode 4
The Glorious 12th is the official start of the grouse-shooting season. The chicks
we have been following since May are now in the firing line. We hear from Geoff
Eyre, shooting tenant on the National Trust High Peak Estate, about grouse shooting.
He talks about his passion for the grouse, the work he has done to restore heather
moorland and what it is like to go on a shooting day. We also discover what red
grouse tastes like.
Duration: 00:10:18
Red Grouse Peak Podcast Episode 4 (MP3 File - 6091.4 KB)
Red Grouse Episode 4 AAC/M4A (M4A File - 3693 KB)
GrouseCast Episode 3 - July 2008
Episode 3 of the Red Grouse podcast. It's July and we talk to gamekeeper Glen
Brown about how the grouse are doing. He explains his job and how he believes
shooting benefits grouse populations on the moors. We also discover another danger
that threatens grouse, this time one that hides on the very heather they eat.
Duration: 00:10:04
Red Grouse Peak Podcast Episode 3 (MP3 File - 5954.6 KB)
Red Grouse Episode 3 AAC/M4A (M4A File - 3123.3 KB)
GrouseCast Episode 2 - June 2008
Episode 2 of the Red Grouse podcast. It's June and we discover how the young
grouse chicks are getting on in the world. Looked after by their mothers in nests
scraped into the ground they are soon eating young heather shoots and insects.
But there are many dangers they can encounter as they grow up - predators, bad
weather and moorland fires all threaten their lives.
Duration: 0:09:39
Red Grouse Peak Podcast Episode 2 (MP3 File - 5690.5 KB)
Red Grouse Ep 2 AAC/M4A (M4A File - 3221.8 KB)
GrouseCast Episode 1 - May
This is the first of six episodes of the Peak District Red Grouse podcast. Its
May and the hens are hatching the eggs. Maria Gabriella of Littlestar Media Productions
talks to Mike Innerdale, National Trust High Peak Estate Property Manager, and
Carl Hawk, National Trust East Midlands Ecological Adviser, in Edale. They talk
about the landscape of the High Peak, how to spot and listen out for a red grouse,
and how the moors are managed to look after this iconic moorland bird.
Duration: 0:11:32
Red Grouse Peak Podcast Episode 1 (MP3 File - 6812 KB)
Red Grouse Ep 1 AAC/M4A (M4A File - 3591 KB)
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