Countryfile (1988)
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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Episode 1 - Rare Breeds Compilation
Release Date: 2015-01-04Adam Henson presents a special edition of Countryfile looking at rare breed farm animals, starting with his own old spot pigs.
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Episode 2 - Somerset
Release Date: 2015-01-11The team are in Somerset, revisiting areas hit by 2014's floods. Matt Baker talks to farmer Geoff Miller, and Helen Skelton explores the bird life of the area.
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Episode 3 - Keswick
Release Date: 2015-01-18In the Lake District, Matt Baker discovers a piece of mountain rescue equipment being used to enable wheelchair users to abseil and Ellie Harrison climbs Helvellyn.
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Episode 4 - Burns Highlands
Release Date: 2015-01-25The team are in the Highlands of Scotland following in the footsteps of poet Robert Burns. Ellie Harrison learns how to drive a pony and carriage.
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Episode 5 - West Yorkshire
Release Date: 2015-02-01Ellie Harrison joins one of Britain's best poets, Simon Armitage, on a yomp across the snowy moors. Matt Baker visits a farm run by volunteers with wildlife in mind.
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Episode 6 - Leicestershire
Release Date: 2015-02-08Ellie Harrison reports from Leicestershire on the drastic decline in farmland birds and joins farmers learning how to spot rare birds.
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Episode 7 - Gloucestershire
Release Date: 2015-02-15Ten years on from the fox hunting ban, Matt Baker visits the oldest pack of foxhounds in the country and Tom Heap hears from people on both sides of the debate.
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Episode 8 - Suffolk
Release Date: 2015-02-22Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Suffolk finding out how erosion has shaped the landscape, swallowed up whole towns and inspired award-winning authors.
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Episode 9 - Pembrokeshire
Release Date: 2015-03-01Countryfile is in Pembrokeshire to mark St David's Day. Matt Baker forages for food and Ellie Harrison is out at sea trying to spot a porpoise.
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Episode 10 - Cheshire
Release Date: 2015-03-08The team are in rural Cheshire. Matt Baker finds out about agricultural apprentices and Tom Heap asks whether we should be building more affordable houses in rural areas.
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Episode 11 - Northern Ireland
Release Date: 2015-03-15The team explore the watery east of Northern Ireland. Matt Baker discovers the Irish hares who have made a rather unusual location home.
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Episode 12 - All Creatures Great and Small
Release Date: 2015-03-22Countryfile is on the Isle of Man. Adam Henson explores the local rock pools and goes on safari to find a wallaby.
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Episode 13 - Hampshire
Release Date: 2015-03-29Matt Baker and Shauna Lowry are in Hampshire, Charlotte Smith is at London Fashion Week and Tom Heap investigates the potential of tidal power in the UK.
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Episode 14 - Norfolk
Release Date: 2015-04-05Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Norfolk. Matt finds out the important part rabbits play in maintaining the Breckland heath. Ellie visits the mysterious Grime's Graves.
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Episode 15 - North Cumbria
Release Date: 2015-04-12Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in the uplands of north Cumbria. Matt meets photographer Ian Lawson, who has spent years photographing the hill shepherds.
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Episode 16 - Woodland
Release Date: 2015-04-19Ellie Harrison, John Craven and Anita Rani explore Britain's woodlands, while Tom Heap investigates what can be done to protect trees from the threat of disease.
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Episode 17 - High Peak
Release Date: 2015-04-26In the Peak District, John Craven looks at how to make the countryside accessible to all, Ellie Harrison meets some search dogs and Anita Rani explores the Pennine Way.
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Episode 18 - Spring Special
Release Date: 2015-05-03As the landscape bursts back into life, the team celebrate spring. Matt Baker gets a real feel of spring in north Wales, where he meets a flock of orphan lambs.
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Episode 19 - Farming Heroes
Release Date: 2015-05-10Countryfile celebrates Britain's farming heroes past and present. Adam Henson is in Bristol to reveal the winner of the first ever Countryfile Farming Hero.
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Episode 20 - Where Town Meets Country
Release Date: 2015-05-17Anita Rani returns to her home turf of Bradford to explore the countryside on the edge of the city. She discovers the rural gems right on her doorstep.
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Episode 21 - Warwickshire
Release Date: 2015-05-24Countryfile visits Warwickshire, where Matt Baker explores Charlecote Park and Anita Rani discovers what it is really like to be a pig farmer.
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Episode 22 - Channel Islands
Release Date: 2015-05-31Countryfile visits the Channel Islands, where Matt Baker explores the legacy of naturalist Gerald Durrell and Ellie Harrison helps with a habitat restoration.
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Episode 23 - Somerset
Release Date: 2015-06-07Matt and Ellie are in Somerset, where Matt is following in the footsteps of a legendary caver who first explored the caverns beneath the Mendips a century ago.
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Episode 24 - Nottinghamshire
Release Date: 2015-06-14Matt Baker visits a village where they farm just as they did in the Middle Ages, while Ellie Harrison goes bird spotting in Nottingham city centre.
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Episode 25 - East Yorkshire
Release Date: 2015-06-21In East Yorkshire, Ellie takes to the water near the mighty Bempton Cliffs and Matt tries his hand at fly fishing on the UK's most northerly chalk stream.
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Episode 26 - Working Landscapes Compilation
Release Date: 2015-06-28John Craven explores the working landscape of Dartmoor and discovers a fascinating photographic record of the farming community going back decades.
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Episode 27 - Cornwall
Release Date: 2015-07-05In Cornwall, Matt Baker tests his sea legs on the hunt for basking sharks. Ellie Harrison gets up to her knees in stinging nettles to dispel their bad name.
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Episode 28 - Derbyshire
Release Date: 2015-07-12In Derbyshire, Matt Baker follows a new pilgrimage trail set up to mark the 350th anniversary of the plague, and Anita meets a man who grows furniture.
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Episode 29 - Northumberland
Release Date: 2015-07-19In Northumberland, Matt Baker meets the artist who has learnt to dive so he can capture on canvas what lies beneath the North Sea.
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Episode 30 - Summer Special
Release Date: 2015-07-26The Countryfile team visit the Kent County Show for their summer special. Friend of the show John Hammond explains just why Kent is so fruitful.
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Episode 31 - Sheep Theme
Release Date: 2015-08-02The team look at all things sheep. Joe Crowley heads to the Yorkshire Dales to visit a traditional upland farm where the shearing is in full swing.
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Episode 32 - Compilation Seaside Theme
Release Date: 2015-08-09John Craven travels to Llandudno to look at what it takes to make a great summer holiday. The team look back at their other summer holiday ideas.
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Episode 33 - CLA Game Fair
Release Date: 2015-08-16Joe Crowley and Anita Rani explore the Country Land and Business Association's annual game fair, one of the highlights of the rural calendar.
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Episode 34 - Powys
Release Date: 2015-08-23Matt and Anita are in Wales' largest county, Powys. Matt visits Powis Castle, while Anita meets the volunteers delivering locally grown fruit and veg to their community.
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Episode 35 - Harvest
Release Date: 2015-08-30In this harvest-themed programme, Matt visits a farm in Buckinghamshire where they do things the old-fashioned way.
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Episode 36 - Cumbria
Release Date: 2015-09-06Countryfile is in Cumbria, where John Craven takes to the skies to discover a new line of defence in the battle against flooding - river restoration.
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Episode 37 - Sussex
Release Date: 2015-09-13Countryfile is in West Sussex. John Craven meets the current members of the first Women's Institute in England to discover the impact the WI has had on rural life.
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Episode 38 - Compilation - The Great Outdoors
Release Date: 2015-09-20Adam Henson is in the Lake District, discovering the joys of the great outdoors and looking back through the Countryfile archive.
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Episode 39 - One Man and His Dog
Release Date: 2015-09-27Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison present Countryfile One Man and His Dog 2015, featuring the best shepherding talent from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Episode 40 - Lancashire
Release Date: 2015-10-04Anita Rani and Helen Skelton are on the coast of Morecambe Bay in the far north western corner of Lancashire. Anita takes a cycle ride along the coast near Silverdale.
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Episode 41 - Cheshire
Release Date: 2015-10-11Matt Baker and Helen Skelton are in Cheshire. Matt visits Lyme Park, hoping for a glimpse of one of nature's most exciting spectacles - the annual red deer rut.
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Episode 42 - Autumn Special
Release Date: 2015-10-18This edition of the countryside magazine revels in the colours of autumn. Ellie Harrison visits Perthshire, where the woodlands are a kaleidoscope of colour by both day and night.
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Episode 43 - North Wales
Release Date: 2015-10-25Sean Fletcher visits Capel Celyn, where 50 years ago villagers were evicted to make way for a new reservoir. Sean meets the families still living with that legacy.
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Episode 44 - Countryfile's Ramble for Children In Need
Release Date: 2015-11-01In this extended edition of the programme, the team present the first ever Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need, as thousands of people explore the rural landscape.
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Episode 45 - Cambridgeshire
Release Date: 2015-11-08The team explore Cambridgeshire. Matt Baker finds out how Cambridge University students past and present are having an impact on the countryside.
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Episode 46 - Compilation Field to Fork
Release Date: 2015-11-15Ellie Harrison is in the market town of Frome in Somerset to find out about a field-to-fork revolution which is taking this place by storm.
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Episode 47 - Dorset
Release Date: 2015-11-22Countryfile is in Dorset. Matt Baker explores a woodland architecture school, where the surrounding trees become the building materials.
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Episode 48 - Shropshire
Release Date: 2015-11-29Countryfile is in Shropshire, where John Craven visits a seed bank and Ellie Harrison is on the hunt for the elusive Shropshire pine marten.
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Episode 49 - Highlands
Release Date: 2015-12-06Ellie Harrison and Joe Crowley explore the NC500 - a new 500-mile scenic loop that takes in some of Scotland's remotest and most beautiful places.
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Episode 50 - The Peaks
Release Date: 2015-12-13Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in the Peaks in Derbyshire, looking at how the geology there gives rise to two distinct landforms - the Dark Peak and the White Peak.
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Episode 51 - Cornish Coastal Christmas
Release Date: 2015-12-20It's Christmas, and Matt and Ellie are in the tiny Cornish fishing village of Coverack, helping the locals get the place set for the festivities.
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Episode 52 - Compilation: The Farming Year
Release Date: 2015-12-27Adam Henson prepares for the new year ahead. There's also a look back at the farming year, with some favourites from the Countryfile archives.