2017

Countryfile2017

2017
53 Episodes

Episodes

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S30E01

My Countryside Compilation

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.

01 Jan 201760m
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Shropshire

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.

08 Jan 201760m
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Carmarthenshire

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.

15 Jan 201760m
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Jurassic Coast

Countryfile is on the Jurassic Coast, where Matt Baker meets the man who's been digging for fossils for more than thirty years.

22 Jan 201760m
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Peak District

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

29 Jan 201760m
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Feathered Friends

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.

05 Feb 201760m
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Winter Special

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.

12 Feb 201760m
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Somerset

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.

19 Feb 201760m
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Isle of Man

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.

26 Feb 201760m
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South Downs

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.

05 Mar 201760m
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Farming Now and Then

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.

12 Mar 201760m
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Hoo Peninsula

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.

19 Mar 201760m
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Denbighshire

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.

26 Mar 201760m
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Forests

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.

02 Apr 201760m
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Holderness

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.

09 Apr 201760m
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Lancashire

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.

16 Apr 201760m
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County Durham

Countryfile is in County Durham, and Matt is on his old home turf, showing how to make panackelty, a traditional north-eastern dish.

23 Apr 201760m
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Warwickshire

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

30 Apr 201760m
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Tales of the Riverbank Compilation

Ellie Harrison reveals how the landscape has been shaped by rivers, meeting those who live, work and play on the banks of the Severn.

07 May 201760m
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Suffolk

Matt Baker hears about the plans the Suffolk Wildlife Trust are making for their biggest-ever land purchase in the charity's 55 years.

14 May 201760m
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Lanarkshire

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.

21 May 201760m
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Spring Special

In a spring special edition of the programme Countryfile goes in search of the secret and often overlooked wonders of the season.

28 May 201760m
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Essex

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.

04 Jun 201760m
Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland

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.

11 Jun 201760m
Wye: Hay Festival
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Wye: Hay Festival

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.

18 Jun 201760m
Working Animals Compilation
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Working Animals Compilation

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.

25 Jun 201760m
Worcestershire
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Worcestershire

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.

02 Jul 201760m
Northants
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Northants

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.

09 Jul 201760m
Fife
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Fife

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.

16 Jul 201760m
Wiltshire
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Wiltshire

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

23 Jul 201760m
Cities
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Cities

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.

30 Jul 201760m
Roots and Shoots
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Roots and Shoots

Ellie Harrison visits a Bristol herb garden to find out about a plant that is on the front line in the fight against cancer.

06 Aug 201760m
Dartmoor
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Dartmoor

Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.

13 Aug 201760m
Summer Special
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Summer Special

Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.

20 Aug 201760m
Llyn Peninsula
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Llyn Peninsula

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.

27 Aug 201760m
Harvest
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Harvest

Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.

03 Sept 201760m
Rame Peninsula
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Rame Peninsula

Ellie Harrison visits Mount Edgcumbe on Cornwall's Rame Peninsula, where the UK's first ever native dark honeybee reserve has just opened.

10 Sept 201760m
Protected Countryside
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Protected Countryside

To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.

17 Sept 201760m
One Man and His Dog 2017
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One Man and His Dog 2017

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.

24 Sept 201760m
South Yorkshire
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South Yorkshire

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

01 Oct 201760m
Dumfries House
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Dumfries House

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.

08 Oct 201760m
Nature Strikes Back
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Nature Strikes Back

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.

15 Oct 201760m
Cornish Heartlands
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Cornish Heartlands

John and Margherita are in Cornwall, where John attends a food festival with a difference. Plus a profile of Cornish artist David Hosking.

22 Oct 201760m
Ramble for Children in Need
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Ramble for Children in Need

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.

29 Oct 201760m
Autumn Special
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Autumn Special

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.

05 Nov 201760m
Remembrance
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Remembrance

Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.

12 Nov 201760m
Hertfordshire
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Hertfordshire

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.

19 Nov 201760m
Cairngorms
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Cairngorms

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.

26 Nov 201760m
Cleveland Way
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Cleveland Way

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.

03 Dec 201760m
The Brecks
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The Brecks

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

10 Dec 201760m
My Countryside Compilation
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My Countryside Compilation

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

17 Dec 201760m
Christmas Special
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Christmas Special

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.

24 Dec 201760m
New Zealand Compilation
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New Zealand Compilation

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

31 Dec 201760m