97: M&Ms, Yellowhammers and Hedges

Podcast: CountrySlide · SideCountry Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

This week, Callum follows Richard Negus on another side quest, this time to Barkway Literary Festival, where Richard has somehow been entrusted with explaining hedges to a live audience. Before they get anywhere near the subject there are M&M riders, Gemma Collins, a broken heating system, an increasingly judgmental dog and a collection of male wasps apparently spending their final days getting drunk on ivy. Eventually Callum McInerney-Riley asks the fairly fundamental question: what actually is a hedge layer? Richard explains why hedgelaying is almost as old as farming itself, how cutting and...