Episode 1
My Countryside Compilation
1h
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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Countryfile
198838 seasons5.4 / 10
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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Countryfile premiered July 24, 1988. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
Season 30 episodes
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Episode 2
Shropshire
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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
1h
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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Episode 24
Northern Ireland
1h
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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Episode 25
Wye: Hay Festival
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, John Craven, Ellie Harrison, Deborah Meaden, Simon King, Hannah Marshall
Episode 26
Working Animals Compilation
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Nick Fox, Aran Clyne, Ian Keith Jones
Episode 27
Worcestershire
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Ellie Harrison, Edmund Brown, Paul Hopkins, Laura Bower
Episode 28
Northants
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, John Craven, Mike Bell, Jack Millington, Paul Evans, Jane Pearman
Episode 29
Fife
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Ellie Harrison, Bex Outram, Nikki Jennings, Roger Nock, Roy Giles
Episode 30
Wiltshire
1h
Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, John Craven, Stuart Barnes, David Waters, Simon Stott, Polly Nicholson
Episode 31
Cities
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Sam Hobson, James Wong, Daniel Raven-Ellison, Paul Myers
Episode 32
Roots and Shoots
1h
Ellie Harrison visits a Bristol herb garden to find out about a plant that is on the front line in the fight against cancer.
Episode credits
Guest stars Anita Rani, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Nicholas Wray, James Wong, Kevin Stephens, Ian Pennington
Episode 33
Dartmoor
1h
Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Jane Deane, Anita Reynolds, Sue Martin, Charlotte Faulkner
Episode 34
Summer Special
1h
Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Stuart Barnes, Andy Beasley
Episode 35
Llyn Peninsula
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, John Craven, Ellie Harrison, Deborah Meaden, Steve Brown, Simon King, Urien Davies-Hughes, Ben Jones
Episode 36
Harvest
1h
Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Margherita Taylor, Nick Baker, Seirian Sumner, Sue Bennett, Charles Bennett
Episode 37
Rame Peninsula
1h
Ellie Harrison visits Mount Edgcumbe on Cornwall's Rame Peninsula, where the UK's first ever native dark honeybee reserve has just opened.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Malcolm Baker, Jo Widdicombe
Episode 38
Protected Countryside
1h
To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Helen Skelton, Mike Innerdale, Terry Abraham, Matthew Entwistle, Peter Haslam
Episode 39
One Man and His Dog 2017
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Charlotte Smith, Matt Baker, Angie Driscoll, Tom Huddleston, Jed Watson, Frank Cashen, Gethin Jones, Neil Gillon
Episode 40
South Yorkshire
1h
Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Simon King, Roly Smith, Terry Howard
Episode 41
Dumfries House
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, Matt Baker, King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Lauren Dalziel, Gail Gilchrist, Denise Rowell
Episode 42
Nature Strikes Back
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Glenn Kilpatrick, David Sear, Andy Gibson
Episode 43
Cornish Heartlands
1h
John and Margherita are in Cornwall, where John attends a food festival with a difference. Plus a profile of Cornish artist David Hosking.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Margherita Taylor, Steve Chamberlain, Chrissie Gittins, David Hosking, Andrew Gillett
Episode 44
Ramble for Children in Need
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison
Episode 45
Autumn Special
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Michael Clark, Olivia Lomenech Gill
Episode 46
Remembrance
1h
Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Ellie Harrison, Trevor Dines, Heather Wastie, Kate Saffin, Andrew Osborne
Episode 47
Hertfordshire
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, John Craven, Andy Tregdett, Rob Hopkins, Phil Buckingham
Episode 48
Cairngorms
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, Helen Skelton, David Frew, Shaila Rao
Episode 49
Cleveland Way
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Helen Skelton, Glenn Kilpatrick, Katie Ventress, Bekka Corrie-Close, David Corrie-Close
Episode 50
The Brecks
1h
Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Ellie Harrison, Diana Bell, Jonathan Yule, Sharon Hearl
Episode 51
My Countryside Compilation
1h
Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.
Episode credits
Guest stars Ellie Harrison, Susan Calman, Michael Caines, David Essex, Edith Bowman, Simon Weston, Nina Wadia, Alan Sumnall
Episode 52
Christmas Special
1h
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Janet Glennerster, Gary Glennerster
Episode 53
New Zealand Compilation
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In New Zealand, Adam Henson meets some old friends, helps with a cattle muster and witnesses sheep farming on a breathtaking scale.
Episode credits
Guest stars Adam Henson, Ian Brickell
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Cast
Miriam O'ReillySelf - Presenter
Ben FogleSelf - Host
John CravenSelf - Host
Adam HensonSelf - Host
Matt BakerSelf - Host
Tom HeapSelf - Host
Ellie HarrisonSelf - Host
Julia BradburySelf - HostProduction details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 1,801
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
BBC OneUnited Kingdom
BBC TwoUnited Kingdom
BBC Studios Factual Entertainment ProductionsUnited Kingdom
BBC Studios ProductionsUnited Kingdom
Themes
agricultureconservationcountrysidefarmingfarmlandlandscapenaturerural life