Countryfile (1988)
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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Episode 1 - My Countryside Compilation
Release Date: 2017-01-01Anita Rani travels to Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales. Plus she looks back at some famous faces who shared special places in the British countryside.
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Episode 2 - Shropshire
Release Date: 2017-01-08Countryfile is in Shropshire, where Matt Baker is exploring the highs and lows of a landscape shaped by the miners who once called this place home.
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Episode 3 - Carmarthenshire
Release Date: 2017-01-15Countryfile is in Carmarthenshire, where Matt Baker explores the explosive history of the sand dunes and Helen Skelton visits the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
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Episode 4 - Jurassic Coast
Release Date: 2017-01-22Countryfile is on the Jurassic Coast, where Matt Baker meets the man who's been digging for fossils for more than thirty years.
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Episode 5 - Peak District
Release Date: 2017-01-29Countryfile is exploring the Peak District. Matt Baker joins the team on a mission to restore the scarred moorland.
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Episode 6 - Feathered Friends
Release Date: 2017-02-05Matt is up at the crack of dawn at the RSPB reserve at Snettisham on the north Norfolk coast to witness thousands of pink-footed geese taking flight.
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Episode 7 - Winter Special
Release Date: 2017-02-12Ellie Harrison is on a winter wildlife safari in the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland. In Filey, John Craven hears the history behind the fisherman's gansey.
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Episode 8 - Somerset
Release Date: 2017-02-19Ellie abseils with a team from the National Trust to help give Cheddar Gorge its annual clean-up and make sure there are no loose rocks.
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Episode 9 - Isle of Man
Release Date: 2017-02-26Joe takes a trip back in time on the oldest horse-drawn tram in the world and visits the farm where magnificent horses get to live out their days.
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Episode 10 - South Downs
Release Date: 2017-03-05The team explore the South Downs. Matt Baker meets the pony who's blazing a trail. Helen Skelton discovers why dark skies are important for wildlife.
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Episode 11 - Farming Now and Then
Release Date: 2017-03-12Adam Henson is in Snowdonia to discover how farming has changed in the past 60 years, with the help of some recently unearthed BBC archive.
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Episode 12 - Hoo Peninsula
Release Date: 2017-03-19Matt Baker and Anita Rani are on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, and Tom Heap looks at what leaving the EU could mean for the UK's agricultural migrant labour force.
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Episode 13 - Denbighshire
Release Date: 2017-03-26Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison visit Denbighshire in north east Wales. Ellie is up at the crack of dawn to witness the spring mating rituals of grouse.
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Episode 14 - Forests
Release Date: 2017-04-02Matt is in the New Forest taking part in an inventory of trees. Ellie is in Inverness-shire seeing what industrial-scale timber production looks like.
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Episode 15 - Holderness
Release Date: 2017-04-09Matt, Anita and John are in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Matt is on Spurn Point, which is now the country's newest island.
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Episode 16 - Lancashire
Release Date: 2017-04-16In Lancashire, Matt Baker learns all about the age-old Easter tradition of pace egg rolling and Anita Rani takes to the hills to follow the Lancashire Witches Walk.
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Episode 17 - County Durham
Release Date: 2017-04-23Countryfile is in County Durham, and Matt is on his old home turf, showing how to make panackelty, a traditional north-eastern dish.
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Episode 18 - Warwickshire
Release Date: 2017-04-30For Hedgehog Awareness Week, Ellie Harrison meets three schoolgirls on a mission to keep the hedgehogs of Warwickshire safe from harm.
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Episode 19 - Tales of the Riverbank Compilation
Release Date: 2017-05-07Ellie Harrison reveals how the landscape has been shaped by rivers, meeting those who live, work and play on the banks of the Severn.
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Episode 20 - Suffolk
Release Date: 2017-05-14Matt Baker hears about the plans the Suffolk Wildlife Trust are making for their biggest-ever land purchase in the charity's 55 years.
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Episode 21 - Lanarkshire
Release Date: 2017-05-21Matt Baker explores the rise and fall of the Clyde valley in Lanarkshire as a major force in Scotland's food industry. Ellie Harrison meets an urban beekeeper.
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Episode 22 - Spring Special
Release Date: 2017-05-28In a spring special edition of the programme Countryfile goes in search of the secret and often overlooked wonders of the season.
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Episode 23 - Essex
Release Date: 2017-06-04Matt and Ellie are in Essex where Matt jumps aboard the Pioneer, a fully restored Essex oyster boat, and Steve Brown finds out what it's like to fire an English longbow.
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Episode 24 - Northern Ireland
Release Date: 2017-06-11Joe Crowley is just south of Belfast, where he joins an RSPB team tagging swifts to find out where they are feeding. Joe Crowley is just south of Belfast, where he joins an RSPB team tagging swifts to find out where they are feeding.
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Episode 25 - Wye: Hay Festival
Release Date: 2017-06-18At the Hay Festival, Ellie Harrison goes on a wildlife safari and Sean is on a literary adventure with a group drawing inspiration from the Wye Valley countryside.
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Episode 26 - Working Animals Compilation
Release Date: 2017-06-25Sean Fletcher is in Carmarthenshire in west Wales taking a look at working animals. He meets one of the world's leading experts on birds of prey.
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Episode 27 - Worcestershire
Release Date: 2017-07-02Ellie joins a family who have set up a traditional cottage industry producing natural elderflower cordials and presses, and tracks lesser horseshoe bats in Worcester.
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Episode 28 - Northants
Release Date: 2017-07-09John Craven meets enthusiasts Matthew and Neil as they create a truly disgusting butterfly banquet to try and catch a glimpse of the purple emperor.
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Episode 29 - Fife
Release Date: 2017-07-16Ellie Harrison crosses the Firth of Forth to witness the seasonal spectacle of guillemots, kittiwakes and puffins jostling for position on the Isle of May.
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Episode 30 - Wiltshire
Release Date: 2017-07-23Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.
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Episode 31 - Cities
Release Date: 2017-07-30Anita Rani is in London at the remarkable Woodberry Wetlands, a haven for all sorts of wildlife just a stone's throw from the tower blocks of Stoke Newington.
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Episode 32 - Roots and Shoots
Release Date: 2017-08-06Ellie Harrison visits a Bristol herb garden to find out about a plant that is on the front line in the fight against cancer.
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Episode 33 - Dartmoor
Release Date: 2017-08-13Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
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Episode 34 - Summer Special
Release Date: 2017-08-20Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
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Episode 35 - Llyn Peninsula
Release Date: 2017-08-27On the Llyn Peninsula, Ellie goes snorkelling to explore the rich seagrass habitat underwater. Steve meets the dairy farmers who produce and deliver their own milk.
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Episode 36 - Harvest
Release Date: 2017-09-03Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.
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Episode 37 - Rame Peninsula
Release Date: 2017-09-10Ellie Harrison visits Mount Edgcumbe on Cornwall's Rame Peninsula, where the UK's first ever native dark honeybee reserve has just opened.
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Episode 38 - Protected Countryside
Release Date: 2017-09-17To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.
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Episode 39 - One Man and His Dog 2017
Release Date: 2017-09-24The best shepherds and their dogs from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales go head to head for the coveted One Man and His Dog 2017 title.
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Episode 40 - South Yorkshire
Release Date: 2017-10-01Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.
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Episode 41 - Dumfries House
Release Date: 2017-10-08Prince Charles talks about why he stepped in to save Dumfries House in East Ayrshire and his vision of how it can be used to help the local community.
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Episode 42 - Nature Strikes Back
Release Date: 2017-10-15Thirty years on from the Great Storm of 1987, Ellie Harrison visits Wakehurst Place in West Sussex to learn how it dealt with the devastation.
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Episode 43 - Cornish Heartlands
Release Date: 2017-10-22John and Margherita are in Cornwall, where John attends a food festival with a difference. Plus a profile of Cornish artist David Hosking.
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Episode 44 - Ramble for Children in Need
Release Date: 2017-10-29A special programme following the team as they lead the way on rambles of their own through some of Britain's best landscapes, all in aid of Children in Need.
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Episode 45 - Autumn Special
Release Date: 2017-11-05Matt Baker crunches through the leaves to find out about a new charter to protect woodlands, and Ellie Harrison meets Skomer's new seal pups.
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Episode 46 - Remembrance
Release Date: 2017-11-12Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.
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Episode 47 - Hertfordshire
Release Date: 2017-11-19Countryfile is in Hertfordshire, where Charlotte Smith meets the man who's made it his sole mission to save the barbel in the Old River Lea.
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Episode 48 - Cairngorms
Release Date: 2017-11-26Joe Crowley is at Britain's largest national nature reserve, Mar Lodge, and he is on the search for ptarmigan at the top of a mountain.
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Episode 49 - Cleveland Way
Release Date: 2017-12-03Helen Skelton and Sean Fletcher are on the Cleveland Way in Yorkshire. Helen meets the team of Scouts who have 'adopted' their own stretch of the 109-mile trail.
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Episode 50 - The Brecks
Release Date: 2017-12-10Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
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Episode 51 - My Countryside Compilation
Release Date: 2017-12-17Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.
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Episode 52 - Christmas Special
Release Date: 2017-12-24In this Christmas special, Matt Baker, John Craven and Anita Rani are in Castleton in the Peak District, where the Christmas tree festival is in full swing.
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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.