2017

Episodes • 2017

My Countryside Compilation

1. My Countryside Compilation

60 min

Anita 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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Shropshire

2. Shropshire

60 min

Countryfile 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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Carmarthenshire

3. Carmarthenshire

60 min

Countryfile 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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Jurassic Coast

4. Jurassic Coast

60 min

Countryfile 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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Peak District

5. Peak District

60 min

Countryfile is exploring the Peak District. Matt Baker joins the team on a mission to restore the scarred moorland.

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Feathered Friends

6. Feathered Friends

60 min

Matt 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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Winter Special

7. Winter Special

60 min

Ellie 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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Somerset

8. Somerset

60 min

Ellie 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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Isle of Man

9. Isle of Man

60 min

Joe 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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South Downs

10. South Downs

60 min

The 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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Farming Now and Then

11. Farming Now and Then

60 min

Adam 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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Hoo Peninsula

12. Hoo Peninsula

60 min

Matt 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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Denbighshire

13. Denbighshire

60 min

Matt 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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Forests

14. Forests

60 min

Matt 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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Holderness

15. Holderness

60 min

Matt, 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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Lancashire

16. Lancashire

60 min

In 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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County Durham

17. County Durham

60 min

Countryfile 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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Warwickshire

18. Warwickshire

60 min

For Hedgehog Awareness Week, Ellie Harrison meets three schoolgirls on a mission to keep the hedgehogs of Warwickshire safe from harm.

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Tales of the Riverbank Compilation

19. Tales of the Riverbank Compilation

60 min

Ellie 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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Suffolk

20. Suffolk

60 min

Matt 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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Lanarkshire

21. Lanarkshire

60 min

Matt 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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Spring Special

22. Spring Special

60 min

In 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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Essex

23. Essex

60 min

Matt 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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Northern Ireland

24. Northern Ireland

60 min

Joe 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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Wye: Hay Festival

25. Wye: Hay Festival

60 min

At 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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Working Animals Compilation

26. Working Animals Compilation

60 min

Sean 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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Worcestershire

27. Worcestershire

60 min

Ellie 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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Northants

28. Northants

60 min

John 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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Fife

29. Fife

60 min

Ellie 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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Wiltshire

30. Wiltshire

60 min

Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.

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Cities

31. Cities

60 min

Anita 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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Roots and Shoots

32. Roots and Shoots

60 min

Ellie 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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Dartmoor

33. Dartmoor

60 min

Anita 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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Summer Special

34. Summer Special

60 min

Anita 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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Llyn Peninsula

35. Llyn Peninsula

60 min

On 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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Harvest

36. Harvest

60 min

Countryfile 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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Rame Peninsula

37. Rame Peninsula

60 min

Ellie 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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Protected Countryside

38. Protected Countryside

60 min

To 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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One Man and His Dog 2017

39. One Man and His Dog 2017

60 min

The 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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South Yorkshire

40. South Yorkshire

60 min

Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.

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Dumfries House

41. Dumfries House

60 min

Prince 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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Nature Strikes Back

42. Nature Strikes Back

60 min

Thirty 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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Cornish Heartlands

43. Cornish Heartlands

60 min

John 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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Ramble for Children in Need

44. Ramble for Children in Need

60 min

A 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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Autumn Special

45. Autumn Special

60 min

Matt 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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Remembrance

46. Remembrance

60 min

Ellie 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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Hertfordshire

47. Hertfordshire

60 min

Countryfile 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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Cairngorms

48. Cairngorms

60 min

Joe 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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Cleveland Way

49. Cleveland Way

60 min

Helen 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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The Brecks

50. The Brecks

60 min

Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.

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My Countryside Compilation

51. My Countryside Compilation

60 min

Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.

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Christmas Special

52. Christmas Special

60 min

In 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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New Zealand Compilation

53. New Zealand Compilation

60 min

In New Zealand, Adam Henson meets some old friends, helps with a cattle muster and witnesses sheep farming on a breathtaking scale.

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