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The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
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Episode 1
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Will Sommerville, Ben Sellick, Angie Jones
Episode 2
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Hannah Cockroft, Craig Edwards, Paul Vesey-Wells, Mark Brattle
Episode 3
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Hannah Cockroft, Ceri Cryer, Callum Low, Hannah Good
Episode 4
Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Hannah Cockroft, Rachel Whiteread, Alan Eves
Episode 5
Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Ray Jackson, David Lacey
Episode 6
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Tom Kitchin, Dan Hoare, David Ramsden
Episode 7
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Hannah Cockroft, Brian Low, Lisa Lucas Ridge, Robin Ravilious
Episode 8
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Joe Crowley, Matt Baker, Helen Skelton, Hannah Cockroft, Jackie Harris, Laura Truelove, Celia Smith
Episode 9
Matt and Ellie explore Cheshire and a wildlife haven in the Wirral, and Hannah Cockroft travels to beautiful North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Henry Cooke, Allan Conlin, Hannah Cockroft, Ben Gregory
Episode 10
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Helen Skelton, Tony Robinson, Henrietta Odgers, James Odgers
Episode 11
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, Margherita Taylor, Steve Brown, Twm Elias, Fionn Gwyn, Nigel Gribble
Episode 12
Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, John Craven, Matt Baker, James Lyall, Fiona Cranston, Judith Starling
Episode 13
Countryfile is exploring Surrey, where Matt Baker meets the women who have inspired generations of conservationists and Helen Skelton visits a biodynamic vineyard.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Steve Brown, Helen Skelton, Mary Adler, Michaela Giles
Episode 14
Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Sean Fletcher, John Craven, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Stephen Gillies, Kate Jones
Episode 15
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Tim Ashton, Neill Mapes, Jade Rhodes
Episode 16
Matt is in Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire, seeing how an old quarry has become one of the best places for wildlife in the county.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Steve Brown
Episode 17
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Michael Wignall, Kim Walker
Episode 18
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Margherita Taylor, Ellie Harrison, Oliver Hellowell, Adrian Sellick, Nicole Turnbull-Wigley, Eddy Young
Episode 19
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, Steve Brown, Grace Noble, Mark Bilsby, Wendy Seel
Episode 20
This month marks 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth, so Countryfile is exploring the Victorian fascination with nature and the great outdoors.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Ellie Harrison, Kat Jungnickel, Oliver Lee
Episode 21
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Steve Brown, Sian Jordan
Episode 22
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Guy Shrubsole, Roger Saul
Episode 23
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, Joe Crowley, Matt Baker, Helen Dunn, Nigel Dunn, Cyril Bennett
Episode 24
Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Joe Crowley, John Craven, Matt Baker, Simon King, Cerys Matthews, Stuart Bradshaw
Episode 25
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Sian Jordan, Helen Dunn, Nigel Dunn
Episode 26
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.
Guest stars Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, Ellie Harrison, Helen Skelton, Gareth Dauncey, Jens Schroeder, Adam Derbyshire
Episode 27
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Sarah-Mary Brown, Iain Spink
Episode 28
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Ellie Harrison, Zeita Holes
Episode 29
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, John Craven, Ed Turner, Emily Cliff, Mark Jenkin
Episode 30
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, John Craven, Anne, Princess Royal, Anne Cooper, Simon Cooper
Episode 31
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, John Craven, Margherita Taylor, Shauna Richardson, Sarah Jenkins
Episode 32
Countryfile visits Perthshire, where Matt visits Cultybraggan, a former prisoner of war camp that is now a thriving community of artisans and food producers.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Steve Brown, Jim Smith, Iain Banks, Beverley Wainwright
Episode 33
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.
Guest stars Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Joe Crowley, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Katy Dainton, John Leadbetter
Episode 34
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, John Craven, Matt Baker, Helen Skelton, Cerys Matthews, Simon King, Jeremy Burchardt, Ian White
Episode 35
This special programme looks back at how the wartime evacuation of children to the countryside shaped the lives of a whole generation.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Margherita Taylor, Steve Brown, Michael Aspel, Gerry Emsley
Episode 36
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, Matt Baker, Helen Skelton, Paul Farley, Katy Cropper, Robert Harrison
Episode 37
Ellie Harrison joins volunteers restoring the Cerne Abbas Giant, and Charlotte Smith investigates the true scale of domestic abuse in the countryside.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Mike Clark, Kevin Evans, Luke Hart, Alistair McKenzie
Episode 38
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.
Guest stars Matt Baker, Helen Skelton, Kevin Evans, Alistair McKenzie, Katy Cropper, Robert Harrison, John McGinn
Episode 39
Joe Crowley is in Cumbria exploring the Lakes’ wild side, and Charlotte investigates the rise of far-right extremism in the countryside.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Joe Crowley, John Craven, Matt Baker, Tom Lloyd, Flo Lloyd, Claire Dyson
Episode 40
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Helen Skelton, Didier Hellio, Christine Hellio
Episode 41
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, Joe Crowley, Ellie Harrison, Kevin Summers, Catherine Jeffs, Esther Hughes
Episode 42
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor
Episode 43
Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Tom Heap, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown
Episode 44
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, John Craven, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Tommy Banks, Tim Hands, Mark Sankey
Episode 45
Matt Baker helps the Essex Wildlife Trust with their first ever winter fish survey on Fingringhoe Wick, a newly created stretch of saltmarsh.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Adrian Thomas, Richard Copley
Episode 46
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Charlotte Smith, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown, Andrew Whitley, Connie Hunter, Lucy Hine, Stephen Marshall
Episode 47
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison, Sydney Langton
Episode 48
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, Helen Skelton, Paul Stangroom, Pam Bennett
Episode 49
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Charlotte Smith, John Craven, Steve Brown, Joe Middleton, Chris Park, Nick Snashall
Episode 50
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.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Tom Heap, Matt Baker, Margherita Taylor, Steve Brown, Jack Darach
Episode 51
John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.
Guest stars Adam Henson, Anita Rani, Sean Fletcher, Tom Heap, John Craven, Ellie Harrison, Steve Brown
Episode 52
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.
Guest stars Steve Brown
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