Country Tracks (2009)
Series celebrating the British countryside.
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Episode 1 - Cotswolds
Release Date: 2010-05-23Ben Fogle goes on a journey through the Cotswolds, one of the most unspoilt areas in rural Britain, ending up at the farm of Countryfile presenter Adam Henson.
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Episode 2 - Filey to Winteringham
Release Date: 2010-06-06Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey from the Yorkshire coast, to Winteringham, south of the Humber.
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Episode 3 - Herefordshire
Release Date: 2010-07-04Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Herefordshire, stopping off at Lyonshall and canoeing along the River Wye.
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Episode 4 - Leeds to Scarborough
Release Date: 2010-07-25Programme celebrating the British countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a Yorkshire journey, starting with a tour of Leeds and ending at Scarborough Castle.
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Episode 5 - Kingdom of Fife
Release Date: 2010-08-01Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey across the Kingdom of Fife, starting at Dundee and finishing on the Firth of Forth.
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Episode 6 - Hampshire
Release Date: 2010-08-08Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin treks through Hampshire, starting at the New Forest and ending up at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre.
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Episode 7 - Staffordshire
Release Date: 2010-08-15Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Staffordshire, starting at Lichfield Cathedral and ending up at Trentham Forest.
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Episode 8 - Poole, Dorset
Release Date: 2010-08-22Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Dorset, starting with an RNLI training exercise in Swanage. While at sea, they receive a real alert.
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Episode 9 - Derbyshire
Release Date: 2010-08-29Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Derbyshire. She hang-glides above the high peak before taking a look at the Buxton Water factory and Bakewell puddings.
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Episode 10 - North West
Release Date: 2010-09-05Liz Bonnin goes on a journey along the North West coast of England, meeting actor Simon O'Brien and exploring the iconic Midland Hotel.
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Episode 11 - Devon and Cornwall
Release Date: 2010-10-03Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Devon and Cornwall. She starts her journey snorkelling off the coast at Thurlestone, then visits Dartmoor Zoo.
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Episode 12 - Shropshire
Release Date: 2010-10-10Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Shropshire, starting with a sheep steeplechase near Telford and ending his journey with clay pigeon shooting at Much Wenlock.
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Episode 13 - Bronte Country
Release Date: 2010-10-17Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ben Fogle journeys through the Bronte Country in Yorkshire, meeting poet Char March along the way.
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Episode 14 - Dunfermline to Melrose
Release Date: 2010-10-24Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley journeys from Dunfermline to Melrose, and tells the tale of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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Episode 15 - Malverns
Release Date: 2010-10-31Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin goes on a journey through the Malverns. She starts her journey in Herefordshire.
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Episode 16 - Kent
Release Date: 2010-11-07Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Kent, starting in Whitstable before travelling to Ham and the resurgent town of Margate.
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Episode 17 - Chilterns
Release Date: 2010-11-21Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison journeys through the Chiltern Hills, visiting Whipsnade Zoo and Lord Rothschild's Natural History Museum.
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Episode 18 - Isle of Wight
Release Date: 2010-11-28Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin journeys the Isle of Wight, meeting Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank and paragliding off the cliffs at Compton Bay.
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Episode 19 - Yorkshire Dales
Release Date: 2010-12-05Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ben Fogle goes on a journey through the Yorkshire Dales, visiting Kingsdale, Malham Cove, Gayle and Harewood Hill.
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Episode 20 - Lyme Regis, Dorset
Release Date: 2010-12-12Programme celebrating the British countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Dorset, where she meets a man who makes seemingly impossible stone sculptures.
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Episode 21 - Sussex Vets
Release Date: 2010-12-19Series celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley journeys around East Sussex, following the work of one of the region's biggest veterinary practices.
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Episode 22 - Hampshire Land
Release Date: 2011-01-09Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Hampshire. She braves the new '3G Swing' at Marwell Activity Centre and checks out the house where Jane Austen lived.
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Episode 23 - Cotswolds
Release Date: 2011-01-16Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through the Cotswolds. She goes wakeboarding at the Cotswold Water Park in Fairford before paying a visit to Snowshill Manor.
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Episode 24 - Essex
Release Date: 2011-01-23Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Essex, starting his journey among the creeks of the Blackwater Estuary and ending it with the North Weald Fire Rescue volunteers.
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Episode 25 - Skye
Release Date: 2011-01-30Helen Skelton goes on a journey across the Isle of Skye, learning the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight to Skye and forging a traditional Scottish sword.
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Episode 26 - Gloucestershire
Release Date: 2011-02-06Liz Bonnin journeys through Gloucestershire. She starts her journey among the trees at Westonbirt's National Aboretum, and ends up inside an inflatable planetarium.
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Episode 27 - Cornish Coast
Release Date: 2011-02-13Jodie Kidd goes on a Cornish coastal journey. She starts in Quies Rock where she encounters some grey seals and ends it at Porthcurno's spectacular Minack Theatre.
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Episode 28 - Oxfordshire
Release Date: 2011-02-20Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Oxfordshire, paying a visit to one of the country's most famous stately homes and trying out Appalachian-style clog dancing.
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Episode 29 - Forest of Dean
Release Date: 2011-02-27Liz Bonnin sails along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in the company of Chris Witts, who skippered the last commercial grain barge to sail into Gloucester Docks.
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Episode 30 - Harris and Lewis
Release Date: 2011-03-06Helen Skelton goes on a journey across Harris and Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She visits a croft, and joins the Hebridean Challenge, a five-day endurance race.
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Episode 31 - East Sussex
Release Date: 2011-03-13Joe Crowley goes on a journey through East Sussex. He begins his travels with the South Downs Rangers, and finishes in the Victorian sewers beneath Brighton's streets.
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Episode 32 - Hampshire Coast
Release Date: 2011-03-20Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Hampshire, starting aboard the Whitbread 60 Blueprint in the Solent, and finishing on a free-range pig farm.
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Episode 33 - River Tweed
Release Date: 2011-03-27Joe Crowley goes on a journey along the River Tweed, following the path of the returning salmon from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Selkirk, on the Scottish side of the border.
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Episode 34 - South Lake District
Release Date: 2011-04-03Series celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin goes on a journey through the Lake District, starting on Coniston Water and ending up in Kendal.
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Episode 35 - Snowdonia
Release Date: 2011-04-10Series celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Snowdonia from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Rhosgadfan.
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Episode 36 - Farne Islands
Release Date: 2011-05-01Series celebrating the UK countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a Northumberland journey, riding on horseback at Bamburgh and swimming with seals near the Farne Islands.
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Episode 37 - Perthshire Cycle
Release Date: 2011-05-15Series celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley teams up with adventurer and endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont to explore the Perthshire Highlands.
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Episode 38 - Bedfordshire
Release Date: 2011-05-29Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Bedfordshire, from the small market town of Sandy to the Woburn Estate, home to the famous Abbey and Safari Park.
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Episode 39 - Hadrian's Wall
Release Date: 2011-06-05Jodie Kidd goes on a journey along Hadrian's Wall. She starts her journey at Birdoswald Fort in Cumbria, where she meets some Roman re-enactors.
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Episode 40 - Lleyn Peninsula
Release Date: 2011-06-12Ellie Harrison goes on a journey along the Lleyn Peninsular in North Wales, climbing up to the mysterious remains of an ancient civilisation.
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Episode 41 - Exmoor
Release Date: 2011-06-19Mark Beaumont goes on a journey through Exmoor, starting in Dulverton, where he finds out how Exmoor's iconic ponies are being saved from the verge of extinction.
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Episode 42 - Lancashire Coast
Release Date: 2011-07-03Mark Beaumont follows Lancashire's River Lune to the Irish sea. Along the way he sees kippering in action, hears tales of witchcraft and has his palm read.
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Episode 43 - London
Release Date: 2011-07-17Joe Crowley explores London's hidden countryside, from the bombed out church transformed into a public park to the historic ponds of Hampstead Heath.
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Episode 44 - Northamptonshire
Release Date: 2011-07-24Ellie Harrison explores Northamptonshire. She visits the home of the county's famous shoe industry, and discovers the story of Coton Manor's gardens and flamingos.
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Episode 45 - Kent
Release Date: 2011-07-31Joe Crowley embarks on a curious excursion through Kent, go-karting in Lydd on the south-eastern tip of the UK, and meeting land girls at Brenzett Aeronautical Museum.
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Episode 46 - Lancashire Forest of Bowland
Release Date: 2011-08-07Mark Beaumont discovers the hidden beauty of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, uncovering the mysteries of Stonyhurst College along the way.
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Episode 47 - Norfolk
Release Date: 2011-08-14Joe Crowley journeys though Norfolk, starting on the Broads and ending in Hunstanton, on Norfolk's northern coast. Along the way, he learns to build a survival shelter.
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Episode 48 - South Wales
Release Date: 2011-08-21Helen Skelton explores the spectacular South Wales coast, visiting Manor House Wildlife Park and Dylan Thomas's boathouse along the way.
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Episode 49 - South Lincolnshire
Release Date: 2011-08-28Joe Crowley explores south Lincolnshire. He starts his journey near Stamford at Burghley House, and gets a rare insight into the famous Burghley horse trials.
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Episode 50 - North Lake District
Release Date: 2011-09-04Liz Bonnin explores the Lake District. She starts her journey in Whinlatter Forest, travels through Keswick, and finishes at a pudding club in Ambleside.
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Episode 51 - Mid Wales
Release Date: 2011-09-11Miriam Cooke meanders through the mystic majesty of mid Wales, starting at the UK's tallest single drop waterfall, and walking along a section of the Cambrian Way.
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Episode 52 - North Lincolnshire
Release Date: 2011-10-02Joe Crowley explores North Lincolnshire, scaling the heights of Lincoln Cathedral and discovering the secret life of British poet Lord Tennyson.
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Episode 53 - Somerset
Release Date: 2011-10-09Round-the-world cyclist Mark Beaumont takes his bike to Somerset, where he meets Tour of Britain cycle race organisers and visits Bath's famous Roman spas.
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Episode 54 - Surrey
Release Date: 2011-10-23Ellie Harrison discovers what makes Surrey special, beginning with a trip to the home of the greatest flat horse race in the world and ending at Watts Gallery in Compton.
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Episode 55 - Islay
Release Date: 2011-11-06Joe Crowley travels west from the mainland of Scotland to the Isle of Islay, the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, which has lots to offer the intrepid traveller.
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Episode 56 - Bristol Channel
Release Date: 2011-11-20Helen Skelton travels along the English shore of the Bristol Channel. Helen begins her journey by visiting the hidden village of Culbone.
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Episode 57 - Cambridge
Release Date: 2011-11-27Joe Crowley takes a journey through Cambridgeshire, where he goes punting on the River Cam and searches for elusive glow worms at Cherry Hinton quarry.
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Episode 58 - Suffolk
Release Date: 2011-12-04Helen Skelton travels through East Anglia. She visits the small village of Rede, where she discovers one of the rarest horse breeds in the world - the Suffolk punch.
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Episode 59 - Thames Path
Release Date: 2011-12-18Joe Crowley takes a journey from the Thames flood barrier at Woolwich to the coast at Southend-on-Sea. At Woolwich Joe hears about the tragic floods of 1953.
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Episode 60 - Hertfordshire
Release Date: 2012-01-08Ellie Harrison peeks through the keyhole of some of Hertfordshire's homes and gardens, planting trees in St Albans and visiting the former home of Barbara Cartland.
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Episode 61 - South Devon
Release Date: 2012-01-15Joe Crowley tours sunny South Devon, including a visit to Dawlish, where gardening legend Toby Buckland takes him on a tour of his favourite horticultural hotspots.
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Episode 62 - Wiltshire
Release Date: 2012-01-22Helen Skelton tours the mysterious grasslands of Wiltshire. She begins her journey amongst Wiltshire's ancient landscape by climbing Europe's largest man-made mound.
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Episode 63 - Cornwall
Release Date: 2012-01-29Joe Crowley explores the southern tip of Cornwall. His journey begins near Padstow, peering into the hidden beach caves that provide inspiration to a local painter.