
Countryfile visits the Somerset Levels, where Matt Baker is on the hunt for the common crane, a bird that has been brought back from the brink. It now thrives in this area, thanks to an unlikely union. Anita Rani meets the farmer who is turning apples into a tempting tipple. Adam Henson takes stock on his farm as winter arrives. And in the first part of a new feature, the programme discovers the highs and lows of life as a rural vet. Charlotte Smith finds out why people who swim in the sea are unwittingly exposing themselves to dangerous bacteria and discovers where they come from.
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Anita’s East Coast Road Trip: Orford Ness
The final stop on Anita’s east coast road trip is the mysterious Orford Ness in Suffolk. Once a top-secret military testing facility, this ten-mile shingle spit is now one ...
26-07-2026
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Anita Rani’s East Coast Road Trip: The Naze
Anita continues her east coast road trip, visiting the Naze, a nature reserve on the Essex coast. Here, coastal erosion is particularly severe, with around 2 to 3 metres lost fr ...
26-07-2026
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Anita Rani's East Coast Road Trip: Mersea Island
The next stop on Anita's road trip is West Mersea in Essex. While the county may be known for engineering and car manufacturing, along its coastline one industry has a much long ...
20-07-2026
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Anita Rani's East Coast Road Trip: Northey Island
Anita Rani begins a four-part journey along England’s east coast, exploring the wildlife, landscapes and communities adapting to life on the edge of the sea.\n\nHer first ...
13-07-2026
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Fifty Years Of The Viking Way
Charlotte Smith and Joe Crowley mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking Way, exploring the people, wildlife and history connected by Lincolnshire's famous long-distance footpath ...
06-07-2026
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Hampshire's Secret Wild Side
Away from Hampshire's famous ports and bustling harbours lies a wild world of woodland, heathland and chalk streams. Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith meet the people working to fi ...
29-06-2026
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Conserving The Cotswolds
John Craven and Vick Hope are in the Cotswolds, exploring one of Britain’s most iconic rural landscapes. While its rolling countryside, historic villages and farming herit ...
22-06-2026
BBC 1
Wonders Of The Isle Of Wight
Joe Crowley, Margherita Taylor and Adam Henson explore a side of the Isle of Wight few visitors ever see. Beyond the beaches and bustling holiday towns, the island’s rare ...
15-06-2026
BBC 1
The Balmoral Show
Sean Fletcher and Adam Henson are in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, for the Balmoral Show, the region’s largest agricultural and food event, welcoming more than 100,000 visito ...
08-06-2026
BBC 1
South Wales: A Critical Season In The Forest
Matt Baker and Sammi Kinghorn explore the forests of the Welsh valleys at a critical time. As spring gives way to summer, wildlife is at its most active and visitor numbers rise ...
01-06-2026
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Storrington
Vick Hope and Joe Crowley are in West Sussex to celebrate the revival of the white stork. \n\nIn the Middle Ages, the white stork was so prevalent, villages such as Storrington ...
02-06-2025
BBC 1
Anita Rani’s East Coast Road Trip: The Naze
Anita continues her east coast road trip, visiting the Naze, a nature reserve on the Essex coast. Here, coastal erosion is particularly severe, with around 2 to 3 metres lost fr ...
26-07-2026
BBC 1
Pembrokeshire
Anita Rani and Sean Fletcher explore the beautiful south west corner of Wales as they celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Anita faces ...
11-04-2022
BBC 1
Easter - The Sights And Sounds Of Spring
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor visit Bisterne Estate in Hampshire’s Avon Valley, where farmland and water meadows provide a vital home for two classic signs of spring &n ...
13-04-2026
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Lambing Special
For sheep farmers, lambing is make or break, a short, intense window of long days and sleepless nights where every decision and every newborn lamb can shape a farm’s fortu ...
23-03-2026
BBC 1
Anita Rani's East Coast Road Trip: Mersea Island
The next stop on Anita's road trip is West Mersea in Essex. While the county may be known for engineering and car manufacturing, along its coastline one industry has a much long ...
20-07-2026
BBC 1
The Balmoral Show
Sean Fletcher and Adam Henson are in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, for the Balmoral Show, the region’s largest agricultural and food event, welcoming more than 100,000 visito ...
08-06-2026
BBC 1
Wonders Of The Isle Of Wight
Joe Crowley, Margherita Taylor and Adam Henson explore a side of the Isle of Wight few visitors ever see. Beyond the beaches and bustling holiday towns, the island’s rare ...
15-06-2026
BBC 1
Fifty Years Of The Viking Way
Charlotte Smith and Joe Crowley mark the 50th anniversary of the Viking Way, exploring the people, wildlife and history connected by Lincolnshire's famous long-distance footpath ...
06-07-2026
BBC 1