Countryfile (1988)
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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Episode 1 - Vets
Release Date: 2019-01-06Adam 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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Episode 2 - Kent
Release Date: 2019-01-13Matt 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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Episode 3 - Wiltshire
Release Date: 2019-01-20Matt 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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Episode 4 - North Yorkshire
Release Date: 2019-01-27Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.
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Episode 5 - Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation
Release Date: 2019-02-03Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.
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Episode 6 - Winter Special
Release Date: 2019-02-10The 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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Episode 7 - Devon
Release Date: 2019-02-17In 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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Episode 8 - Gloucestershire
Release Date: 2019-02-24Matt 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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Episode 9 - Cheshire and the Wirral
Release Date: 2019-03-03Matt 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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Episode 10 - Somerset
Release Date: 2019-03-10Matt 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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Episode 11 - North West Wales
Release Date: 2019-03-17In 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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Episode 12 - Food Compilation
Release Date: 2019-03-24Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.
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Episode 13 - Surrey
Release Date: 2019-03-31Countryfile 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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Episode 14 - National Parks
Release Date: 2019-04-07Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.
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Episode 15 - Shropshire
Release Date: 2019-04-14Matt 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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Episode 16 - Herts & Bucks
Release Date: 2019-04-21Matt 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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Episode 17 - Spring Special
Release Date: 2019-04-28Matt 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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Episode 18 - Living on the Edge
Release Date: 2019-05-05With 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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Episode 19 - Aberdeenshire
Release Date: 2019-05-12Anita 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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Episode 20 - Queen Victoria
Release Date: 2019-05-19This 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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Episode 21 - Derbyshire
Release Date: 2019-05-26The 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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Episode 22 - South Wales
Release Date: 2019-06-02Matt 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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Episode 23 - Chalk Streams
Release Date: 2019-06-09Anita 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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Episode 24 - West Yorkshire
Release Date: 2019-06-16Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.
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Episode 25 - Lincolnshire
Release Date: 2019-06-23In 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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Episode 26 - Caring for Our Planet Compilation
Release Date: 2019-06-30Machynlleth 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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Episode 27 - Summer Special - Royal Highland Show
Release Date: 2019-07-07The 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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Episode 28 - Bedfordshire
Release Date: 2019-07-14John 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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Episode 29 - Cornwall
Release Date: 2019-07-21Anita 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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Episode 30 - Gloucestershire
Release Date: 2019-07-28The 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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Episode 31 - Norfolk
Release Date: 2019-08-04John 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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Episode 32 - Perthshire
Release Date: 2019-08-11Countryfile 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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Episode 33 - Working Animals
Release Date: 2019-08-18Sean 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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Episode 34 - Warwickshire
Release Date: 2019-08-25Matt 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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Episode 35 - Evacuees Special
Release Date: 2019-09-01This 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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Episode 36 - Northumberland
Release Date: 2019-09-08This 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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Episode 37 - Dorset
Release Date: 2019-09-15Ellie 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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Episode 38 - One Man and His Dog
Release Date: 2019-09-22The 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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Episode 39 - Lake District
Release Date: 2019-09-29Joe 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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Episode 40 - Nature's Bounty
Release Date: 2019-10-06Helen 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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Episode 41 - Wembury
Release Date: 2019-10-13Joe 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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Episode 42 - Forest of Dean
Release Date: 2019-10-20In 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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Episode 43 - Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need
Release Date: 2019-10-27Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.
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Episode 44 - Autumn Special
Release Date: 2019-11-03John 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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Episode 45 - Essex
Release Date: 2019-11-10Matt 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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Episode 46 - Balcaskie
Release Date: 2019-11-17The 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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Episode 47 - Conwy and Gwynedd
Release Date: 2019-11-24Matt 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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Episode 48 - Tees Valley
Release Date: 2019-12-01Sean 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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Episode 49 - Wiltshire
Release Date: 2019-12-08John 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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Episode 50 - Buckinghamshire
Release Date: 2019-12-15Matt 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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Episode 51 - Christmas Special
Release Date: 2019-12-22John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.
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Episode 52 - Caring for Our Community
Release Date: 2019-12-29Steve 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.