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The weather’s gorgeous, summer’s not far away, and yet we’re spending most of our time inside. We all know how important it is to play by the rules and stay at home, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a bit tough sometimes.

But fear not, 成人论坛 Radio has plenty to bring the outdoors inside, transforming your flat or bedroom into a forest, seashore or hillside.

So plug your headphones in or turn your speakers up, and let this selection transport you to the great outdoors.

Go Wild – The place to find the best nature documentaries from 成人论坛 Radio 4, introduced by Harriet Noble.

You may not have thought you needed an entire podcast series dedicated to one bird, but believe me you do. These endearing episodes take you to the avian paradise of Scotland’s Isle of May and immerse you in everything puffin. Hosts Emily Knight and Becky Ripley get stuck in with puffin preservation, including the risky practice of grovelling. No, it’s not profusely apologising to puffins – but rather reaching into their barrows to check for eggs, with the ever-present threat of a vigorous nip for your trouble. Planet Puffin is educational, fun, and, most crucially at the moment perhaps, refreshingly escapist.

I recently listened to the poet Gillian Clark’s rumination on the grey heron: soundtracked by the bird’s guttural caw-caw, she remembers the surprise of seeing one creature walking through her garden, looking like “a shuffling bishop wearing vestments”.

Chris Watson has, to me at least, an enviable job. As a nature sound recordist he travels around the world to record the sounds of nature (obviously). And Chris is a legend in his field (no pun intended). Here his work for Radio 4 is collected together, and it’s a veritable aural treasure trove. There’s the creaking and cracking of icebergs in The Ice Mountain, the tick-tock dripping of stalactites in The Cave, or Painting in Sound where Chris creates a soundscape inspired by a Constable painting. I’m going to listen to every programme here.

There’s a bird theme to a lot of my selections I admit, but it’s impossible not to include this one. J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine is a tour-de-force of nature writing, a sumptuouslywritten account of one man’s decade-long obsession with a hawk. And it’s richly read by living legend Sir David Attenborough. A real treat.

Non-cricket fans, stay with me. Radio 5 Live's loosely cricket-based podcast is an inclusive place, designed for everyone from the cricket aficionado to those who can’t tell their LBW from their elbow. Radio 1’s Greg James, ex-Maccabees guitarist Felix White, Britain's greatest ever bowler James Anderson and a shoe salesman from Bristol called Matchin who claims to be related to a cricket legend (it makes sense when you listen) have created a warm and welcoming community, which admittedly does sometimes speak about cricket, but more often indulges in in-jokes, silliness and morale-boosting camaraderie. It also gives you a taste of the particular joys of a cricketing summer, even in the depths of winter (or when everyone’s stuck inside and all cricket is cancelled).