The Broomway is dubbed Britain’s Deadliest Footpath! Wending its way across the vast mudflats of Essex/Thames Estuary it’s navigable only with expert guides, which I had, + some great company. Bleakly beautiful + brimming with tales of life & death. Today 3pm R4 BBC Open Country

For #PostboxSaturday, here's me and Helen Mark from BBC Radio 4's Open Country posting a letter to Handwritten Letter. The cute GR postbox is in Keld, nr Shap #Cumbria. Listen to our tour of the postman's path on Thursday April 18 at 3pm and on BBC Sounds after that.

This week on @bbcopencountry Alan Cleaver Alan Cleaver takes us on paths of the past - routes rural postmen and women used to take over Shap Fells, trudging miles to deliver the mail. And there's the corpse paths - for carrying the dead! Today 3pm, Sat 6am, anytime BBC Sounds

Wonderful day in the holloways and hills of Dorset last Friday recording for #OpenCountry with Helen Mark and Robin Markwell. More details shortly, but we followed the train of the Colpexies deep underground... #Dorset #Nature #Folkllore

Join us looking for pixies in the ancient holloways of Dorset on this week's BBC Open Country on BBC Radio 4 with Helen Mark A most enjoyable Spring stroll to celebrate Holloways & Sunken Lanes through Symondsbury Estate with Martin Maudsley and Andy Jeffries & Rosie Cummings of Natural England 📻 🌿

Exploring #Dorsets #Holloways - unique #sunkenlanes formed by centuries of footfall across soft clay soils for BBC Open Country - a journey near #Symondsbury made all the better for the excellent company of ecologists, researchers and a brilliant storyteller. Join us today at 3pm

🎵 I dreamt of Edward on Lough Erne's Shore 🎵 Described as a 'leading light' in keeping the Irish traditional singing flame alive in #Fermanagh & across the border counties, Rosie Stewart, from #Cashel joins Helen Mark this week on #YPAM 🎧 Saturday after 8am BBC Sounds

#Armagh Apple blossom, Bees and duo of William Haffey and grandson Jack Wilson. I visit their smallholding near Loughgall where their hive rental scheme to local orchards is good for bees and makes for delicious honey. Great family story ‘On Your Farm’ BBC Radio 4 June 2nd 6.35am

…… join me on a slippery slope today 3pm ⁦BBC Open Country⁩, also Sat 6.03am and on ⁦BBC Sounds⁩

Coming up on Your Place & Mine with Helen Mark tomorrow... 🎸 Armagh Rhymers appearing in new Netflix show 'Bodkin' ⛵ A photo exhibition highlighting Belfast's maritime industry &⛯ 200years of Carlingford Lough Haulbowline Lightouse Listen on BBC Sounds

⛰️ Climbing #Everest, Open #Farm Weekend Open Farm Weekend and #Yoga in the Marble Arch Caves Fermanagh & Omagh District Council ⛰️ #YPAM is embracing health and well-being this week - join Helen Mark this #Saturday after 8am and afterwards BBC Sounds

🕊 A poignant walk in the Sperrins 🕊 This week #YPAM is in the #Sperrins where nearly 80yrs ago a light aircraft crashed during a WW2 training exercise. Aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee took Helen Mark to the crash site. Join YpamAnnie Saturday at 8am & BBC Sounds

Today Helen Mark heads to the Shropshire hills to learn about the art of nature-writing. She visits the Arvon and joins budding writers drawing inspiration from the landscape. Today 3pm on Radio 4, any time you like on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

✈️ The Sky's the Limit ✈️ This week on #YPAM Helen Mark heads to the Ulster Aviation Society to find out all about Northern Ireland’s #aviation #heritage. 🎧Join YpamAnnie this Saturday from 9am BBC Radio Ulster BBC Radio Foyle BBC Sounds

When is a skillet more than just a frying pan? Listen to #Kintra on ⁦⁦BBC Radio Ulster⁩ and ⁦BBC Radio Foyle⁩ at 6pm tonight as ⁦Paula McIntyre MBE⁩ #hamelykitchenUSA explains why and how she cherishes this one cast for ⁦Dolly Parton⁩!!

🥔 Emigration and An Gorta Mor 🥔 This week on #YPAM John Heagney visits his father Bernie's homeplace in #Kinnigillian and 'GORTA - Swatragh's Famine Story' opens in Co Derry. #YPAM with YpamAnnie and on BBC Sounds 🎧

Lots of research and boot leather went into this book! You can hear Alan Cleaver talking about how he explored Britain's postal paths in this episode of Open Country with Helen Mark bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

My thanks to Helen and Rab at Kintra for capturing the magical launch of 'Out of the Silence' and for continuing the important conversation about women, creativity and Ulster-Scots. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… BBC Radio Ulster Ulster-Scots Agency English at Ulster Ulster-Scots Community Network Fair Faa Ye

🎇 Sparks are flying in Ballymoney 🎇 This week on #YPAM sparks are flying in #Ballymoney where mother of three Rosie Wildwood has become the first female welder in a local engineering firm. With Helen Mark, Saturday from 8am and on BBC Sounds 🎧