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Peak District
It’s 75 years since the transformative National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949 opened up large swathes of the British countryside for everyone. Sammi King ...
15-12-2024
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Romney Marsh
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are visiting Romney Marsh in Kent, known for its sweeping skies, marshland and shingle beaches, and at this time of year home to tens of thousan ...
15-12-2024
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Dame Judi Dench Special
In a special episode, Dame Judi Dench reveals her love of the countryside – and Scotland in particular. From picnics to camping, saving the arts in rural communities and a ...
15-12-2024
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A Cumbrian Christmas
We’re back in the Cumbrian fells with 16-year-old shepherdess Katie and her family on their upland farm for this year’s Countryfile Christmas. Sammi Kinghorn and Joe ...
12-12-2024
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Winter Wonders
Anita Rani is at the world-famous Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, a centre of research and conservation founded by Sir Peter Scott in 1946, to discover some wonderful ...
10-12-2024
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Winter Special
Today, Countryfile embraces the wonders of winter. Matt Baker is on the Dorset coastline to meet a man who's championing local winter produce. Anita Rani finds out how making je ...
09-12-2024
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Woodoaks Farm
John Craven and Margherita Taylor explore Woodoaks Farm in Hertfordshire, where efforts are under way to restore nature’s balance and reconnect people with farming. John d ...
09-12-2024
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Northumberland Coast In Autumn
Hamza Yassin and Charlotte Smith are on the beautiful Northumberland Coast. Hamza travels to Coquet Island with the RSPB’s site manager, warden and volunteers to help rest ...
02-12-2024
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Yorkshire Dales
Sean Fletcher and Sammi Kinghorn are in the Yorkshire Dales with its craggy hills, plunging valleys and expansive moors - but the landscape hasn’t always looked like this. ...
25-11-2024
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Westonbirt At Autumn
John Craven visits Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, in Gloucestershire, to see it in all its autumnal glory. At this time of year, 2,500 different species of trees, from arou ...
18-11-2024
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Bbc Children In Need Countryfile Rambles 2024
Presenters Matt Baker, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Margherita Taylor and John Craven are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Countryfile Rambles for BBC Children in Need.\n \nTh ...
11-11-2024
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Rare Crop Harvest
It’s harvest time, but not as we know it, as Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith visit a farm in Cambridgeshire growing something rather unusual for the UK. Charlotte meets pio ...
04-11-2024
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Autumn Harvest
The cereal harvests of summer are finished, and now it’s the time to gather in our autumn crops, including one of our most popular - potatoes. Joe Crowley visits an Essex ...
28-10-2024
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Stranraer Oyster Festival
Joe Crowley is on the west coast of Scotland, celebrating a local delicacy – the oyster! Every year, people flock to the small coastal town of Stranraer to visit the Stran ...
21-10-2024
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The Supreme
Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith are in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, at the 2024 International Sheepdog Championship.\n\nFor weeks, hundreds of handlers and sheepdogs around the UK ...
14-10-2024
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Kelso Ram Sales
The Kelso Ram Sales on the Scottish Borders is one of the largest and oldest ram sales in Europe, with more than 3,500 rams expected to be sold on the day. Charlotte Smith joins ...
07-10-2024
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Wild Britain - Anglesey
Joe Crowley and Anita Rani continue Countryfile’s Wild Britain initiative, galvanising the nation into helping our beloved wildlife. This week, they’re exploring how ...
30-09-2024
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Salisbury Plain
The Ministry of Defence is not only responsible for the nation's security, but they are also one of the UK’s major landowners. Charlotte and Matt have security clearance t ...
23-09-2024
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West Exmoor
Sean Fletcher and Anita Rani explore the rugged hills and valleys of west Exmoor, where landscape-scale change is occurring with the introduction of large animals to aid nature ...
16-09-2024
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Angling
Fishing is one of the most popular outdoor pursuits in the UK, with three million anglers casting their lines each year. The UK’s coastlines and rivers offer incredible fi ...
09-09-2024
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Wakehurst
Wakehurst, Kew’s botanic gardens in West Sussex, is the location for judging this year’s Countryfile photographic competition. John Craven and Charlotte Smith are jo ...
02-09-2024
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Borrowdale
The Lake District is known for its rugged peaks, open valleys and magnificent lakes, but it’s also home to the Borrowdale Oakwoods, England’s largest remaining tempe ...
26-08-2024
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Weird And Wonderful
Day in, day out, our countryside is a hive of activity. Farmers grow our food, while guardians nurture our nature and wildlife. But you don’t have to dig too deep to disco ...
23-08-2024
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Islands
Joe Crowley is on Isle Martin, a dot of an island off the west coast of Scotland, which is getting ready to host Scotland’s very first seaweed festival. Joe meets the isla ...
22-08-2024
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Healing Countryside
The healing powers of the great outdoors have never been more valued than now, so Ellie Harrison visits Gloucestershire to discover just how our countryside can provide the perf ...
21-08-2024
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Art In The Countryside
Ellie Harrison is in Gloucestershire at Nature in Art, the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to art inspired by nature, as she\ngoes in search of her inner mu ...
20-08-2024
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Big Adventures
We could all do with a bit of adventure in our lives after the last few months - and what better place to find it than in our great British countryside! This week, Joe Crowley v ...
19-08-2024
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Royal Welsh Show
With over 7,000 livestock being shown, and an expected turnout of 250,000 people, Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith are at one of the largest agricultural shows in Europe – ...
19-08-2024
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Food And Drink
Joe Crowley meets chef Romy Gill to celebrate the glories of seasonal food at Chew Magna Community Farm. From pickles and preserves to a feast making the most of fabulous produc ...
16-08-2024
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Field To Fashion
Anita Rani is in a green pocket of Blackburn to catch up with fashion designer and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant to find out about the growing field-to-fashion mo ...
15-08-2024
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Wonderful Wildlife
Ellie Harrison is at Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue to help care for injured creatures great and small, from orphaned fledglings to deer and hedgehogs. Ellie finds out why rescue c ...
14-08-2024
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At The Seaside
Sean Fletcher visits Whitby. Isolated between the North York Moors National Park and the sombre North Sea, it’s not a place you stumble upon; it’s a destination. Thi ...
13-08-2024
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Wrest Park
John Craven is at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire to help with an ambitious 20-year restoration project to breathe new life into fabulous features that reflect fashions across three ...
12-08-2024
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Britain's Rarest Creatures
The British countryside is home to an abundance of rare creatures, and to catch a glimpse of animals such as a red squirrel, a hazel dormouse or a roseate tern is always a treat ...
12-08-2024
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The Fens
Anita and Matt are at the lowest point in the UK, the Fens, to explore the way wildlife and people coexist at and below sea level.\n \nMatt helps with a peatland health check an ...
05-08-2024
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Chew Valley
Skirting the northern edge of the Mendips in Somerset, hidden by rolling hills, lies Chew Valley, named after the River Chew that winds its way into the first of two man-made la ...
29-07-2024
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Hengistbury Head
Charlotte Smith and Sean Fletcher are on Hengistbury Head in Dorset, where a large-scale engineering project is set to save huge swathes of this coastline from being lost to the ...
22-07-2024
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Montacute House
Montacute House is one of the jewels in the crown of Somerset’s countryside. The 400-year-old Elizabethan mansion situated at the heart of the estate is certainly impressi ...
15-07-2024
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The East Riding Of Yorkshire
From the towering cliffs of RSPB Bempton on the coast to shallow, crystal-clear streams further inland, Charlotte Smith explores England’s most northerly chalk outcrop &nd ...
08-07-2024
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Three Rivers Race
The Three Rivers Race, Europe's toughest inland sailing competition, takes place each year on the Norfolk Broads. Over 100 competitors have to navigate 50 miles of the Bure, Ant ...
01-07-2024
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Hidden Treasures Of Wanlockhead
Sammi Kinghorn and Sean Fletcher explore the natural riches and hidden treasures of Wanlockhead – the highest village in Scotland. Way up in the lofty hills of Dumfries an ...
24-06-2024
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South Wales Farming
Charlotte Smith and Joe Crowley head to south west Wales, where they help with a kelp harvest at Câr-y-Môr, Wales’s first regenerative ocean farm. Hauling up m ...
17-06-2024
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D-day: 80th Anniversary
Anita Rani and Charlotte Smith travel to Dorset, where 80 years ago tens of thousands of troops amassed as the Allies’ combined forces prepared for D-Day. The remnants of ...
10-06-2024
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Camel Trail
Tucked away in north Cornwall, the Camel Trail is one of the most popular recreational routes in the country. Following an old railway, the trail covers 18 miles and connects th ...
03-06-2024
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Northumberland Coast
Saturated in stories, and treasured for its wildlife, the north Northumberland coast is a wild and dramatic landscape.\n \nJoe Crowley celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Nat ...
27-05-2024
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Rural Mental Health
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, Sean Fletcher and Margherita Taylor travel to the Sharpham Trust, located in the beautiful wilds of south Devon. It's an internationally r ...
20-05-2024
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Lambing
To wrap up this year’s lambing season, we’re at Adam Henson’s farm in the Cotswolds to see what’s next for his new spring additions. As well as the misch ...
13-05-2024
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Rutland
Sean Fletcher and Margherita Taylor travel to Rutland, historically the smallest county in England. Despite its size, it is home to the largest man-made body of water in the cou ...
06-05-2024
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Wisley Bees
From the blooming gardens of RHS Wisley in Surrey, Hamza Yassin and Sammi Kinghorn celebrate one of nature’s heroes – the not-so-humble bee!\n \nHamza gets a beginne ...
29-04-2024
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Wrynose And Hardknott Passes
Buckle up as Anita Rani and Matt Baker are on a road trip along the Hardknott and Wrynose Passes in the heart of the Lake District. Despite their notorious reputation as some of ...
22-04-2024
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Westonbirt Arboretum
Hamza Yassin and Charlotte Smith celebrate the arrival of spring at the majestic 600-acre National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire. It’s home to a globally impo ...
15-04-2024
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Trent Valley
Margherita Taylor and Matt Baker head to the Trent Valley, where over the past two centuries, industrialisation along the UK’s third largest river - the river Trent - has ...
08-04-2024
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Archaeology At Hinton Ampner
From Roman coins to Stone Age axes and prehistoric bones, Britain’s countryside is full of hidden ancient treasures.\n \nAnita Rani is in Hinton Ampner, a medieval village ...
01-04-2024
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Wessex Downs
Marlborough Downs forms part of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape and contains some of our most important habitats, including chalk grasslands, ancient woodland and rare ...
25-03-2024
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Rnli 200 Years
In March 2024, the RNLI celebrates its 200th anniversary of saving lives and rescuing boats in distress around the UK’s coastline. Matt Baker and Sammi Kinghorn are in Som ...
18-03-2024
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Pontcysyllte Canal
Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith head to the UK's longest and highest aqueduct, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in north Wales. Built in 1795, it is one of 26 cast iron aqueducts in the ...
11-03-2024
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Powis Castle Compilation
Britain is home to over 4,000 castles, ranging from scattered ruins and rubble to wonderfully restored fortresses. Charlotte Smith visits one of Wales’s finest examples, t ...
04-03-2024
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Snowdrops
Joe Crowley and Anita Rani are at the Colesbourne estate in the Cotswolds, where its gardens at this time of year are home to millions of one hardy flower – the snowdrop. ...
26-02-2024
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Ashdown Forest
It’s been a century since a fictional bear called Winnie-the-Pooh made his first ever appearance in the children’s poetry book When We Were Very Young. One hundred y ...
19-02-2024
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Bodmin Moor
At the heart of Cornwall lie the rocky uplands of Bodmin Moor, home to the county’s highest point. A wild landscape of moorland, granite tors and waterfalls, Bodmin Moor h ...
12-02-2024
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Somerset Willow Harvest
Joe Crowley is in the Somerset Levels to experience the history, heritage and farming of this unique wetland environment, which stretches from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills ...
05-02-2024
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Newport
The Newport Wetlands National Nature Reserve is one of the best sites in the country to view birdlife, and Sammi Kinghorn and Matt Baker are on the lookout for one of nature's g ...
29-01-2024
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Tamara Way
Charlotte Smith and Sammi Kinghorn are in the West Country to experience the landscape, heritage and wildlife highlights of a new 87-mile route – the Tamara Coast to Coast ...
22-01-2024
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Norfolk North Sea
At this time of year, much of the UK’s wildlife is battling just to survive the cold winter months. But along the north Norfolk coastline, during the harshest of seasons, ...
15-01-2024
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River Lea
New Year's Day is traditionally a day when we get outside and go for a gentle stroll to blow off the cobwebs from the night before and welcome in the coming year. Margherita Tay ...
09-01-2024
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Country Lore
As we head into winter, the days are getting shorter, the weather is turning colder, trees are losing their leaves, and wildlife is taking shelter. The countryside might appear ...
27-12-2023
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Elan Valley
Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker head to Elan Valley, nestled in the heart of the Cambrian Mountains, where the Welsh natural world is getting ready for the onset of winter. The v ...
18-12-2023
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Poole Harbour
Ellie Harrison and Anita Rani are at Poole Harbour for the conclusion of a three-year environmental study, and thety celebrate Ellie’s last Countryfile episode with a trip ...
11-12-2023
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Dumfries House
Countryfile returns to Dumfries House as autumn is in full swing and the first year of teaching gets underway at the new rural skills centre recently opened by the King. \n\nMar ...
04-12-2023
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South Downs
John Craven and Sammi Kinghorn visit the South Downs to see how the past is inspiring residents to preserve the future of this diverse landscape.\n\nJohn immerses himself in the ...
27-11-2023
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Ramble For Children In Need 2023
It’s time for presenters Matt Baker, Charlotte Smith, Margherita Taylor, Joe Crowley and John Craven to pull on their bobble hats and get rambling in aid of Children in Ne ...
13-11-2023
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Wild Britain
Countryfile’s Wild Britain is an ambitious 12-month initiative to galvanize us all to help and save our precious wildlife. In this second instalment of the initiative, Ell ...
13-11-2023
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Best Of Autumn
John Craven revisits the Gloucestershire village of Hillesley 50 years after he first reported on the local newspaper. He meets Hollywood screenwriter William Nicholson, who cut ...
12-11-2023
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Agmash Auction Hub
Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith are in Cambridgeshire at Cheffins’ famous agricultural machinery auction. It’s the ultimate trading floor for agricultural machines a ...
30-10-2023
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Autumn Spectacle
Joe Crowley and Charlotte Smith head to the Wash in Norfolk to see one of the greatest wildlife events in the UK, the Snettisham Spectacular. During the highest high tides, thou ...
23-10-2023
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Highland Games Compilation
Every summer across Scotland, Caledonian culture is celebrated at local highland games and gatherings. Fulfilling a long-standing ambition, Hamza Yassin takes a trip to Royal De ...
16-10-2023
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Harvest 2
Presenters Adam Henson and Sean Fletcher are back in the ‘breadbasket’ of East Anglia, where over a third of Britain's food is produced. Last time, Adam met arable f ...
09-10-2023
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Harvest 1
In the first of two special episodes, presenters Adam Henson and Sean Fletcher join the Martin family on their arable farm in Cambridgeshire at the busiest time of year. Harvest ...
02-10-2023
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One Man And His Dog
From the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, four of the UK’s top sheepdog handlers go head-to-head, aiming to claim 2023's One Man and His Dog trophy. The challenging course ...
25-09-2023
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Young Shepherdess
Sammi Kinghorn returns to Cumbria to find out how young shepherdess Katie is doing now that she’s finished school for the year. The summer holidays are no time to rest, as ...
18-09-2023
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Bannau Brycheiniog
Sean Fletcher and Matt Baker head to the Usk Valley within Bannau Brycheiniog, formerly referred to as the Brecon Beacons. Bannau Brycheiniog is more than a name. It signifies a ...
04-09-2023
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Farmers And Festivals
Every year, hundreds of farms across the UK diversify their income by opening their gates and hosting music festivals. Anita Rani heads to Somerset to meet sheep farmers Andy an ...
28-08-2023
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Glasgow
In Renfrewshire, John and Hamza judge this year’s entries to the Countryfile photographic competition with the help of photography enthusiast and DJ Edith Bowman. The fina ...
21-08-2023
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Dumfries House
Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith return to Dumfries House, where the summer activities are in full swing. It’s been three months since the King’s coronation and Countr ...
14-08-2023
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Hay Time
Long, hot summer days bring farmers out into the fields in their droves. It's hay-making season, so Charlotte Smith and Adam Henson are in the thick of it, discovering what make ...
07-08-2023
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Wild Fires
In the aftermath of one of the biggest fires to ever engulf the UK countryside, Joe Crowley and John Craven explore the impact of increasing wildfires. \n\nJoe is in the Scotti ...
31-07-2023
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Countryside Cycling
Joe Crowley and Sammi Kinghorn are in the Lake District finding out how cycling is still one of the top outdoor pursuits in the UK and how electric bikes are opening up the coun ...
24-07-2023
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Flower Farming
Joe Crowley and Charlotte Smith are in Spalding, south Lincolnshire – the historic hub of Britain’s bulb and flower farming industry – to explore its rich heri ...
17-07-2023
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Ronald Blythe’s Suffolk
John Craven and Margherita Taylor travel to the village of Charsfield in the heart of Suffolk to celebrate one of our most respected rural writers, Ronald Blythe, who passed awa ...
10-07-2023
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Rare Breeds 50th Anniversary Compilation
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rare Breed Survival Trust, a charity founded by Adam’s father, Joe Henson, to reverse the decline of rare breed numbers in the UK. ...
03-07-2023
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Porthcawl Surf And Sand
We’re in Porthcawl, Bridgend County, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Welsh Surfing Federation. John Craven meets Linda Sharp, the UK’s first female European ...
26-06-2023
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Argyll Hope Spot
There are 151 hope spots around the world, including the Galapagos Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. They are areas identified as critical to the health of the oceans, champio ...
19-06-2023
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Lower Hampen Farm
Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker are at Lower Hampen Farm in the Cotswolds to meet Lydia and Clive Handy, who have turned back the clock to adopt a more traditional approach to fa ...
12-06-2023
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Upper Teesdale
Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker travel to Upper Teesdale in the Durham Dales to celebrate one remarkable lady who has made it her life’s work to look after one of the most ...
05-06-2023
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Cumbrian Shepherdess - Spring
For the first of three visits this year, Sammi Kinghorn is on a hill farm in Cumbria, catching up with a passionate young farmer, 16-year-old Katie. From dawn to dusk, it’ ...
29-05-2023
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Mental Health Awareness
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, Charlotte Smith travels to the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall to visit Chaos Farm, which stands for Community Helping All of Society. Char ...
22-05-2023
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A Rural Welcome Revisit
Ten months on from their first visit, Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are back in the New Forest in Hampshire to catch up with the community and families who have come together ...
15-05-2023
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Lambing Special
There is no surer sign that spring is here than millions of lambs being born across the UK. Charlotte Smith visits the Outer Hebrides to meet teenage farmer Archie, who despite ...
08-05-2023
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Dumfries House
Charlotte Smith and Hamza Yassin travel to Dumfries House, a showcase for the King's passion for rural life.\n\nCharlotte meets schoolchildren at the estate’s education fa ...
01-05-2023
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