Countrywise (2009)
Countrywise is a British television series on ITV, in which broadcaster Paul Heiney and the team of reporters look at the best of Britain's coast and country, with contributions from the ITV regions. Quite often, the classical historian Bettany Hughes appears on the programme, when she is introduced as the "Countrywise Historian". The programme began a new series in December 2010 - Countrywise Kitchen, about foraging for food and food connected with different parts of the country. For example, the edition broadcast on 10 December 2010 mentioned gathering mushrooms, and mentioned the cep mushroom. Celebrities who have appeared on the programme include Rachel de Thame, who appeared on the programme on 5 July 2011. The most recent series of the programme began broadcast on 25 June 2012, when it came from the Isle of Man and mentioned the Manx cat. A more recent edition of the programme has come from Ireland.This edition of the programme mentioned how the newest member of the Countrywise team has been the programme's scientist, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, who discussed Finn MacCool when the programme was in Ireland. In late July 2012, the programme was broadcast in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where it visited the smallest city in the United Kingdom, that of St. David's.
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Episode 1 - Countryside larder
Release Date:Paul Heiney has a close encounter with a wolf and food expert Mike Robinson explains how the countryside is his `larder'. Plus, a report on a vicar who trains sheepdogs in different languages, and a visit to a watermill producing some of the nation's healthiest flour. Mike Robinson narrates
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Episode 2 - Eden Project in Cornwall
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Episode 3 - Yorkshire Dales
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Episode 4 - Dartmoor
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Episode 5 - Guernsey
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Episode 6 - East and West Sussex
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Episode 7 - Cheshire
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Episode 8 - Carmarthenshire
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Episode 9 - Series 2, Episode 9
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Episode 10 - Series 2, Episode 10
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Episode 11 - North Wales
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Episode 12 - Derbyshire Dales
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Episode 13 - New Forest in Hampshire
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Episode 14 - Forest of Bowland in Lancashire
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Episode 15 - Essex
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Episode 16 - Northumberland
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Episode 17 - Woolacombe Bay
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Episode 18 - Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire
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Episode 19 - Shropshire
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Episode 20 - Series 2, Episode 20
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Episode 21 - Series 2, Episode 21
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Episode 22 - Series 2, Episode 22
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Episode 23 - Series 2, Episode 23
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Episode 24 - Series 2, Episode 24
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Episode 25 - Series 2, Episode 25
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Episode 26 - Series 2, Episode 26
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Episode 27 - Series 2, Episode 27
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Episode 28 - Christmas Special
Release Date: 2010-12-22