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Vets
E1

Vets

Adam 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.

60 min

Kent
E2

Kent

Matt 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.

60 min

Wiltshire
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Wiltshire

Matt 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.

60 min

North Yorkshire
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North Yorkshire

Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.

60 min

Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation
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Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation

Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.

60 min

Winter Special
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Winter Special

The 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.

60 min

Devon
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Devon

In 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.

60 min

Gloucestershire
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Gloucestershire

Matt 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.

60 min

Cheshire and the Wirral
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Cheshire and the Wirral

Matt and Ellie explore Cheshire and a wildlife haven in the Wirral, and Hannah Cockroft travels to beautiful North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

60 min

Somerset
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Somerset

Matt 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.

60 min

North West Wales
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North West Wales

In 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.

60 min

Food Compilation
E12

Food Compilation

Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.

60 min

Surrey
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E13

Surrey

Countryfile is exploring Surrey, where Matt Baker meets the women who have inspired generations of conservationists and Helen Skelton visits a biodynamic vineyard.

60 min

National Parks
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National Parks

Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.

60 min

Shropshire
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Shropshire

Matt 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.

60 min

Herts & Bucks
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Herts & Bucks

Matt is in Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire, seeing how an old quarry has become one of the best places for wildlife in the county.

60 min

Spring Special
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Spring Special

Matt Baker is at Morecambe Bay to meet caravan enthusiasts celebrating 100 years of caravanning history, while John Craven tries his hand at sheep shearing.

60 min

Living on the Edge
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Living on the Edge

With 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.

60 min

Aberdeenshire
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Aberdeenshire

Anita 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.

60 min

Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria

This month marks 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth, so Countryfile is exploring the Victorian fascination with nature and the great outdoors.

60 min

Derbyshire
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Derbyshire

The 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.

60 min

South Wales
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South Wales

Matt 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.

60 min

Chalk Streams
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Chalk Streams

Anita 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.

60 min

West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire

Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.

60 min

Lincolnshire
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Lincolnshire

In 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.

60 min

Caring for Our Planet Compilation
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Caring for Our Planet Compilation

Machynlleth 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.

60 min

Summer Special - Royal Highland Show
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Summer Special - Royal Highland Show

The 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.

60 min

Bedfordshire
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Bedfordshire

John Craven visits the secluded Luton Hoo estate, once a training ground for land girls, and Tom Heap looks at new forms of environmental campaigning.

60 min

Cornwall
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Cornwall

Anita 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.

60 min

Gloucestershire
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Gloucestershire

The 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.

60 min

Norfolk
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Norfolk

John 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.

60 min

Perthshire
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Perthshire

Countryfile visits Perthshire, where Matt visits Cultybraggan, a former prisoner of war camp that is now a thriving community of artisans and food producers.

60 min

Working Animals
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Working Animals

Sean 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.

60 min

Warwickshire
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Warwickshire

Matt 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.

60 min

Evacuees Special
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Evacuees Special

This special programme looks back at how the wartime evacuation of children to the countryside shaped the lives of a whole generation.

60 min

Northumberland
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Northumberland

This 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.

60 min

Dorset
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Dorset

Ellie Harrison joins volunteers restoring the Cerne Abbas Giant, and Charlotte Smith investigates the true scale of domestic abuse in the countryside.

60 min

One Man and His Dog
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One Man and His Dog

The 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.

60 min

Lake District
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Lake District

Joe Crowley is in Cumbria exploring the Lakes’ wild side, and Charlotte investigates the rise of far-right extremism in the countryside.

60 min

Nature's Bounty
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Nature's Bounty

Helen 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.

60 min

Wembury
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Wembury

Joe 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.

60 min

Forest of Dean
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Forest of Dean

In 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.

60 min

Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need
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Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need

Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.

60 min

Autumn Special
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Autumn Special

John 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.

60 min

Essex
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Essex

Matt Baker helps the Essex Wildlife Trust with their first ever winter fish survey on Fingringhoe Wick, a newly created stretch of saltmarsh.

60 min

Balcaskie
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Balcaskie

The 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.

60 min

Conwy and Gwynedd
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Conwy and Gwynedd

Matt 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.

60 min

Tees Valley
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Tees Valley

Sean 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.

60 min

Wiltshire
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Wiltshire

John 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.

60 min

Buckinghamshire
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Buckinghamshire

Matt 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.

60 min

Christmas Special
E51

Christmas Special

John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.

60 min

Caring for Our Community
E52

Caring for Our Community

Steve 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.

60 min

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