Countryfile

2019

52 episodes · Jan 6, 2019

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  • Vets
    S32E1

    Vets

    Jan 6, 201960m

    Adam Henson looks at the harsh reality of being a rural vet in the depths of winter. He also looks back at the trials and tribulations of one the country's largest practices.

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  • Kent
    S32E2

    Kent

    Jan 13, 201960m

    Matt Baker is exploring the magnificent Leeds Castle as it celebrates its 900th anniversary. He tries his hand at a spot of falconry with the castle's resident birds of prey.

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  • Wiltshire
    S32E3

    Wiltshire

    Jan 20, 201960m

    Matt Baker discovers the incredible work of a care farm in Wiltshire which is changing children's lives. Anita Rani tastes a local cheese with a long heritage.

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  • North Yorkshire
    S32E4

    North Yorkshire

    Jan 27, 201960m

    Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.

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  • Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation
    S32E5

    Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation

    Feb 3, 201960m

    Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.

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  • Winter Special
    S32E6

    Winter Special

    Feb 10, 201960m

    The team reveal how the countryside is full of life even in the coldest of months. Steve Brown discovers the challenges faced by barn owls during winter.

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  • Devon
    S32E7

    Devon

    Feb 17, 201960m

    In Devon, Matt Baker looks at the work of James Ravilious, who spent years photographing the Devon countryside, and meets one of the farmers who appeared in the photos.

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  • Gloucestershire
    S32E8

    Gloucestershire

    Feb 24, 201960m

    Matt and Helen are in Gloucestershire where Matt pays a visit to the world-famous Slimbridge wetland reserve to see how a massive multi-million-pound refurbishment is going.

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  • Cheshire and the Wirral
    S32E9

    Cheshire and the Wirral

    Mar 3, 201960m

    Matt and Ellie explore Cheshire and a wildlife haven in the Wirral, and Hannah Cockroft travels to beautiful North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

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  • Somerset
    S32E10

    Somerset

    Mar 10, 201960m

    Matt Baker and Helen Skelton are in Somerset, and in a special film for Comic Relief, Sir Tony Robinson visits a charity that’s making a real difference to people’s lives.

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  • North West Wales
    S32E11

    North West Wales

    Mar 17, 201960m

    In north west Wales, Joe Crowley visits a sheep farm and meets its striking new arrivals. Margherita Taylor discovers the Welsh names for the local flora and fauna.

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  • Food Compilation
    S32E12

    Food Compilation

    Mar 24, 201960m

    Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.

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  • Surrey
    S32E13

    Surrey

    Mar 31, 201960m

    Countryfile is exploring Surrey, where Matt Baker meets the women who have inspired generations of conservationists and Helen Skelton visits a biodynamic vineyard.

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  • National Parks
    S32E14

    National Parks

    Apr 7, 201960m

    Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.

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  • Shropshire
    S32E15

    Shropshire

    Apr 14, 201960m

    Matt meets the farmer using a no-till method of raising crops to help save our soils, while Ellie is on the trail of Shropshire’s Clun sheep.

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  • Herts & Bucks
    S32E16

    Herts & Bucks

    Apr 21, 201960m

    Matt is in Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire, seeing how an old quarry has become one of the best places for wildlife in the county.

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  • Spring Special
    S32E17

    Spring Special

    Apr 28, 201960m

    Matt Baker is at Morecambe Bay to meet caravan enthusiasts celebrating 100 years of caravanning history, while John Craven tries his hand at sheep shearing.

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  • Living on the Edge
    S32E18

    Living on the Edge

    May 5, 201960m

    With sea levels rising and ferocious waves battering our coasts, Ellie Harrison finds out what it’s like living on the edge of land and sea all year round.

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  • Aberdeenshire
    S32E19

    Aberdeenshire

    May 12, 201960m

    Anita Rani is in Aberdeenshire meeting a family with a passion for Highland cattle, and Joe Crowley investigates the rapidly falling number of wild Atlantic salmon.

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  • Queen Victoria
    S32E20

    Queen Victoria

    May 19, 201960m

    This month marks 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth, so Countryfile is exploring the Victorian fascination with nature and the great outdoors.

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  • Derbyshire
    S32E21

    Derbyshire

    May 26, 201960m

    The team are in Derbyshire. Matt Baker joins a group who have been restoring Chesterfield’s canals, Anita Rani visits Tissington and Steve Brown learns how we can help pollinators.

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  • South Wales
    S32E22

    South Wales

    Jun 2, 201960m

    Matt Baker learns about a scheme to create new structures from the fabric of the land, while Tom Heap asks whether our countryside has become a tax haven for the super-rich.

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  • Chalk Streams
    S32E23

    Chalk Streams

    Jun 9, 201960m

    Anita and Matt are in Hampshire celebrating our chalk streams, while Adam and Charlotte meet the last of the three contenders for our Farming Hero Award.

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  • West Yorkshire
    S32E24

    West Yorkshire

    Jun 16, 201960m

    Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.

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  • Lincolnshire
    S32E25

    Lincolnshire

    Jun 23, 201960m

    In Lincolnshire, Ellie kicks back in a bar where it’s not drinks on the menu but clouds! Meanwhile, Adam looks at what Brexit could mean for our farmers.

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  • Caring for Our Planet Compilation
    S32E26

    Caring for Our Planet Compilation

    Jun 30, 201960m

    Machynlleth is the first town in Wales to declare a climate emergency. Anita sees how the community is doing its bit in the fight against a warming planet.

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  • Summer Special - Royal Highland Show
    S32E27

    Summer Special - Royal Highland Show

    Jul 7, 201960m

    The team are at the Royal Highland Show celebrating the best that rural Scotland has to offer, including the Arbroath smokie and an award-winning Scottish gin.

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  • Bedfordshire
    S32E28

    Bedfordshire

    Jul 14, 201960m

    John Craven visits the secluded Luton Hoo estate, once a training ground for land girls, and Tom Heap looks at new forms of environmental campaigning.

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  • Cornwall
    S32E29

    Cornwall

    Jul 21, 201960m

    Anita Rani visits the Antony Estate on the Rame Peninsula, John Craven visits an off-grid camp in Truro, and Tom Heap meets farmers caught up in the bovine TB outbreak.

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  • Gloucestershire
    S32E30

    Gloucestershire

    Jul 28, 201960m

    The team is in Gloucestershire to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Riding for the Disabled Association. Interviewed, Princess Anne talks of her long association with the RDA.

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  • Norfolk
    S32E31

    Norfolk

    Aug 4, 201960m

    John and Margherita are in Norfolk, where John is up at the crack of dawn to help with a release back into the wild of one of our rarest birds, the corncrake.

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  • Perthshire
    S32E32

    Perthshire

    Aug 11, 201960m

    Countryfile visits Perthshire, where Matt visits Cultybraggan, a former prisoner of war camp that is now a thriving community of artisans and food producers.

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  • Working Animals
    S32E33

    Working Animals

    Aug 18, 201960m

    Sean is in the Lake District taking a look at some of the jobs working animals do, and we take another look at working animals we’ve featured in the past.

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  • Warwickshire
    S32E34

    Warwickshire

    Aug 25, 201960m

    Matt Baker marks the centenary of the death of Joseph Arch, a farm labourer who founded the first national farm workers' union and later became an MP.

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  • Evacuees Special
    S32E35

    Evacuees Special

    Sep 1, 201960m

    This special programme looks back at how the wartime evacuation of children to the countryside shaped the lives of a whole generation.

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  • Northumberland
    S32E36

    Northumberland

    Sep 8, 201960m

    This week the team are in Northumberland. Helen Skelton visits the Blyth Tall Ship scheme, where students from disadvantaged areas are taught traditional boat-building skills.

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  • Dorset
    S32E37

    Dorset

    Sep 15, 201960m

    Ellie Harrison joins volunteers restoring the Cerne Abbas Giant, and Charlotte Smith investigates the true scale of domestic abuse in the countryside.

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  • One Man and His Dog
    S32E38

    One Man and His Dog

    Sep 22, 201960m

    The best shepherds from across the British Isles descend on the Scottish Borders to find out which nation has what it takes to claim the coveted title of One Man and His Dog 2019.

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  • Lake District
    S32E39

    Lake District

    Sep 29, 201960m

    Joe Crowley is in Cumbria exploring the Lakes’ wild side, and Charlotte investigates the rise of far-right extremism in the countryside.

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  • Nature's Bounty
    S32E40

    Nature's Bounty

    Oct 6, 201960m

    Helen Skelton learns about the history and traditions of harvesting, and we revisit the times when our presenters got stuck in to help harvest this country's varied produce.

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  • Wembury
    S32E41

    Wembury

    Oct 13, 201960m

    Joe Crowley, Anita Rani and Ellie Harrison explore the wildlife and naval history of Wembury, near Plymouth, while Tom Heap tracks the gangs stealing village cashpoints.

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  • Forest of Dean
    S32E42

    Forest of Dean

    Oct 20, 201960m

    In the Forest of Dean, Matt Baker is on the hunt for the elusive adder, while Margherita Taylor meets a local brass band and visits Puzzlewood.

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  • Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need
    S32E43

    Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need

    Oct 27, 201960m

    Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.

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  • Autumn Special
    S32E44

    Autumn Special

    Nov 3, 201960m

    John Craven takes a walk in the footsteps of the poet John Keats and explores the landscape that inspired his poem To Autumn, written 200 years ago this autumn.

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  • Essex
    S32E45

    Essex

    Nov 10, 201960m

    Matt Baker helps the Essex Wildlife Trust with their first ever winter fish survey on Fingringhoe Wick, a newly created stretch of saltmarsh.

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  • Balcaskie
    S32E46

    Balcaskie

    Nov 17, 201960m

    The team are on the Balcaskie Estate in the East Neuk of Fife, where Charlotte Smith tries her hand at the fast-growing rural sport of competitive ploughing.

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  • Conwy and Gwynedd
    S32E47

    Conwy and Gwynedd

    Nov 24, 201960m

    Matt Baker walks the Snowdonia slate trail, while Ellie Harrison finds out about the Outdoor Partnership, a project to get people outdoors and into the countryside.

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  • Tees Valley
    S32E48

    Tees Valley

    Dec 1, 201960m

    Sean Fletcher and Helen Skelton explore the Tees Valley, while Tom Heap looks at whether enough is being done to protect UK farming and food production from flooding.

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  • Wiltshire
    S32E49

    Wiltshire

    Dec 8, 201960m

    John Craven visits a wood in Wiltshire that has been ravaged by ash dieback, while Adam Henson is in Lincolnshire to see for himself the impact of the recent devastating floods.

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  • Buckinghamshire
    S32E50

    Buckinghamshire

    Dec 15, 201960m

    Matt Baker joins a group of schoolchildren making their first visit to a farm, while Margherita Taylor meets the people preserving some of the UK's last box trees.

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  • Christmas Special
    S32E51

    Christmas Special

    Dec 22, 201960m

    John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.

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  • Caring for Our Community
    S32E52

    Caring for Our Community

    Dec 29, 201960m

    Steve Brown is in Somerset celebrating the work that volunteers and communities do in our countryside. He spends the day on a community farm that's doing its bit for sustainability.

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