Countryfile (1988)
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
-
Episode 1 - Compilation: Winter Wildlife
Release Date: 2016-01-03Ellie Harrison is at the Cotswold Water Park looking back at some of Countryfile's encounters with winter wildlife, and spotting some of her own.
-
Episode 2 - Hertfordshire
Release Date: 2016-01-10Countryfile is in Hertfordshire, where Matt Baker meets a farming family who are turning oilseed rape into liquid gold - oil.
-
Episode 3 - Gloucestershire
Release Date: 2016-01-17Countryfile is in Gloucestershire, where Matt gives the trees at Batsford Arboretum a health check using a clever bit of x-ray kit to look for decay.
-
Episode 4 - North Devon
Release Date: 2016-01-24Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in north Devon, where Matt finds out what life is like for the residents once the tourists have gone.
-
Episode 5 - Winter Special
Release Date: 2016-01-31The team pull on their thermals for a walk on the wild side of winter. Adam heads to North Ronaldsay, where their rare seaweed-eating sheep are under threat.
-
Episode 6 - Tyne and Wear
Release Date: 2016-02-07Matt Baker visits a country park near Newcastle that was once the site of a coalmine, and Ellie Harrison looks at the restoration of Roker Lighthouse near Sunderland.
-
Episode 7 - Norfolk Broads
Release Date: 2016-02-14Matt Baker joins student gamekeepers at work, while Ellie Harrison reveals how cranes have returned to Norfolk after an absence of 400 years.
-
Episode 8 - Staffordshire
Release Date: 2016-02-21Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Staffordshire. Matt visits a school with farming at the heart of the curriculum. Ellie meets a couple who own a nature reserve.
-
Episode 9 - Essex
Release Date: 2016-02-28Matt Baker and Shauna Lowry are near Colchester on the Essex coast. Matt ventures to Mersea Island to meet an oyster fisherman, and Shauna Lowry goes to the River Colne.
-
Episode 10 - Northern Ireland
Release Date: 2016-03-06Exploring the beauty of Northern Ireland, John Craven finds out about Rathlin Island's kelp industry. Anita Rani meets a farmer whose animals are now TV stars.
-
Episode 11 - Young Farmers Compilation
Release Date: 2016-03-13Countryfile is in Aberystwyth, where Adam Henson visits the town's university to meet the youngsters working towards a career in farming.
-
Episode 12 - Sussex
Release Date: 2016-03-20Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Sussex exploring Ashdown Forest, the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood in AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Matt also visits a farm belonging to the Countryside Restoration Trust, which promotes wildlife-friendly farming. Ellie is on the hunt for woodpeckers - easy to hear, but harder to spot! John Craven is at West Rise, the state junior school with a difference: it has a bronze-age settlement and buffalo roaming its marshlands. Tom Heap is in Scotland where there's fresh concern about the impact that wind farms could have on birdlife. But how much of a threat do turbines really pose? And Adam Henson meets the farmer opening his farm to help refugees.
-
Episode 13 - Three Counties
Release Date: 2016-03-27The team explore the three counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire and meet some of the local crafts people keeping rural skills alive.
-
Episode 14 - Cattle Theme
Release Date: 2016-04-03Matt Baker, Anita Rani and Helen Skelton tell the story of cattle in this themed programme. Matt spends the day with a young beef farmer.
-
Episode 15 - Northumberland
Release Date: 2016-04-10John Craven marks the 40th anniversary of LS Lowry's death by following in the artist's footsteps. Ellie Harrison learns about how to conserve moorland.
-
Episode 16 - Dumfries and Galloway
Release Date: 2016-04-17Joe Crowley meets a woman who looks after a herd of Belted Galloway cattle. Anita Rani joins photographer Keith Kirk after dark, looking for wildlife.
-
Episode 17 - Shakespeare Special
Release Date: 2016-04-24To mark 400 years since Shakespeare's death, Countryfile travels the length and breadth of the country in search of the landscapes that inspired his works.
-
Episode 18 - Conservation Compilation
Release Date: 2016-05-01Ellie Harrison visits the South Haven Peninsula in Dorset to tell the story of conservation's unsung hero Captain Cyril Diver.
-
Episode 19 - South Devon
Release Date: 2016-05-08Matt Baker explores the Dartington estate in south Devon to discover the history of the place and meet the farmers who are turning their goats' milk into ice cream.
-
Episode 20 - Spring Special
Release Date: 2016-05-15A snapshot of spring, including dolphins in Cardigan Bay, one of the UK's last remaining hay meadows, a Roman fort in Alderney, and a large vegetated shingle spit.
-
Episode 21 - Veggie Theme
Release Date: 2016-05-22A snapshot of spring, including dolphins in Cardigan Bay, one of the UK's last remaining hay meadows, a Roman fort in Alderney, and a large vegetated shingle spit.
-
Episode 22 - Snowdonia
Release Date: 2016-05-29John Craven races a hill runner to the summit of Snowdon and meets the volunteers protecting the area's ospreys.
-
Episode 23 - Montrose
Release Date: 2016-06-05Matt Baker and Anita Rani are at the stunning Montrose Basin in Angus in Scotland, and Tom Heap asks what the EU referendum may mean for Britain's fisheries.
-
Episode 24 - Hampshire
Release Date: 2016-06-15To celebrate British Flowers Week, Charlotte Smith and Anita Rani look at the resurgence of British flowers. Charlotte finds out why the smell of flowers is so popular.
-
Episode 25 - East Midlands
Release Date: 2016-06-19Matt Baker takes to the Trent in a kayak and finds out about the effort to clean up the river. In Rutland, Helen Skelton is an apprentice in a windmill.
-
Episode 26 - Compilation Weather
Release Date: 2016-06-26A look back at the long hot summer of 1976 with TV weatherman John Hammon, plus a rerun of some of Countryfile's best weather-related stories.
-
Episode 27 - Pembrokeshire
Release Date: 2016-07-03John Craven takes to the water in Pembrokeshire to find out about the area's boating heritage, painting boats and learning sea shanties along the way.
-
Episode 28 - Kent
Release Date: 2016-07-10It is tennis season and Countryfile is visiting Kent, where Matt Baker finds out about Wimbledon strawberries and gets to grips with the harvest.
-
Episode 29 - Meadows
Release Date: 2016-07-17The Countryfile team explore meadows, from the wildlife that makes the meadow its home to the plants that thrive there. Matt Baker discovers the art of scything.
-
Episode 30 - Cumbria
Release Date: 2016-07-24The team visit Cumbria, looking at the places which inspired Beatrix Potter, a farm run using horses and steam power, and Lakeland sports, including Cumberland wrestling.
-
Episode 31 - Summer Special
Release Date: 2016-07-31A special edition of Countryfile celebrating the Great British summer. Matt Baker travels along the south Wales coast, while Naomi Wilkinson punts along the River Cam in Cambridge.
-
Episode 32 - Island Life Compilation
Release Date: 2016-08-07Anita heads to the tiny Scottish island of Kerrera, where she joins the postmaster on her daily round and helps the shepherd round up her sheep.
-
Episode 33 - Lochaber
Release Date: 2016-08-14Countryfile marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme. Joe heads to the Scottish Highlands to meet a team taking part in five-day challenge.
-
Episode 34 - Countryfile Live
Release Date: 2016-08-21Matt Baker mingles with exhibitors and visitors at the first ever Countryfile Live, which took place in the magnificent grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
-
Episode 35 - Wiltshire
Release Date: 2016-08-28Countryfile has been given access to an excavation at the Stonehenge World Heritage site, and Joe Crowley meets the team who have found strange items buried in the soil.
-
Episode 36 - Harvest
Release Date: 2016-09-04It is harvest time, and the countryside is buzzing with activity. The Countryfile team are getting stuck in as crops are brought in across the country.
-
Episode 37 - Anglesey
Release Date: 2016-09-11Anita Rani explores Anglesey, off the north west coast of Wales. She navigates the notorious Menai Strait and meets the fisherman who bought an island.
-
Episode 38 - Inspirational Countryside Compilation
Release Date: 2016-09-18Countryfile marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth by discovering his passion for the outdoors and how it inspired his writing.
-
Episode 39 - One Man and His Dog
Release Date: 2016-09-25Matt Baker and Anita Rani preside over proceedings as the best shepherds and their dogs from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland battle it out for the trophy.
-
Episode 40 - Surrey
Release Date: 2016-10-02Anita Rani travels to Surrey to explore the revival of interest in growing hops there. Adam Henson is hoping for the right conditions to get the last of his wheat harvest in.
-
Episode 41 - Rivers & Waterways
Release Date: 2016-10-09Matt meets a writer who draws inspiration from the Thames Estuary and its people, and Naomi meets a photographer captivated by the waterfall at Lydford Gorge.
-
Episode 42 - Isle of Wight
Release Date: 2016-10-16Matt and Anita explore the Isle of Wight. Matt abseils down the walls of Carisbrooke Castle, while Anita is on Ventnor Downs helping to round up feral goats.
-
Episode 43 - Autumn Special
Release Date: 2016-10-23To celebrate nature's final flourish before the slow descent into winter, the team pulls on its wellies, kicks through the crisp leaves and explores the fruits of our forests.
-
Episode 44 - Herefordshire
Release Date: 2016-10-30Matt looks at Herefordshire's historic perry-making industry and helps out with the pear harvest. He starts out at Weston's, the world's biggest producers of perry.
-
Episode 45 - Ramble for Children in Need
Release Date: 2016-11-06In this extended edition of Countryfile, the team head out into some of the nation's most beautiful landscapes for the Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.
-
Episode 46 - A Remembrance Sunday Special
Release Date: 2016-11-13Helen Skelton is on a special cycle ride across northern France to commemorate 100 years since the Battle of the Somme.
-
Episode 47 - West Yorkshire
Release Date: 2016-11-20In West Yorkshire, Matt Baker meets the youngsters who have become RSPB rangers. Anita Rani meets an author who immerses himself in the landscape.
-
Episode 48 - Brecon Beacons
Release Date: 2016-11-27The team explores the Brecon Beacons. Matt Baker discovers geocaching, a treasure hunt with a modern twist, and meets an artist whose canvas is the night sky.
-
Episode 49 - Lincolnshire
Release Date: 2016-12-04The team are in Lincolnshire, where it's all go in the vast fields of winter veg. John Craven learns about the kalette, a cross between kale and a brussels sprout.
-
Episode 50 - Aberdeenshire
Release Date: 2016-12-11The team are in Aberdeenshire, where Helen visits the only village on mainland Britain where cars can't go. Plus a turkey farm where the guard dogs are alpacas.
-
Episode 51 - Christmas Special
Release Date: 2016-12-18Countryfile celebrates Christmas at Bamburgh Castle on the Northumbrian coast. John Craven learns what the first Christmases on Lindisfarne would have been like.
-
Episode 52 - James Herriot Compilation
Release Date: 2016-12-26Ellie Harrison visits Thirsk to celebrate the centenary of vet Alf Wight, known to the world as James Herriot, and speaks to his children.
-
Episode 53 - New Zealand Compilation
Release Date: 2017-12-31In New Zealand, Adam Henson meets some old friends, helps with a cattle muster and witnesses sheep farming on a breathtaking scale.