Matt Baker, Anita Rani and Joe Crowley are in West Yorkshire where Matt meets Dr Ryad Alsous, a refugee from Syria whose love of bees has helped him forge a new life here. Matt also meets some of the refugees and locals Ryad is inspiring with his love of bees. Matt gets to try his hand at making a beehive and samples a delicious Syrian dessert made with the honey he helps Ryad harvest. \n\nAnita is on the moors looking for the Easter bunny - or should that be Easter hare? She's on the hunt for the elusive mountain hare in its most northerly English habitat. Anita also meets Susan Sroka, a one woman hare rescue service who's been nursing a baby leveret back to health. \n\nJoe explores Emily Bronte's passion for wildlife and finds out that she had her very own bird of prey. \n\nTom Heap looks at the reasons for the decline in our hedgehogs and Adam Henson buys some of the rarest native breed cattle there are, blue albions.
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Orca Watch
At the northernmost edge of mainland Scotland, a spectacle unfolds – Orca Watch – a chance to catch a glimpse of one of our most awe-inspiring cetaceans. At survey s ...
15-06-2025
BBC 1
Farm Innovations
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are in Herefordshire to explore some of the latest - and most surprising - innovations in agriculture.\n\nMargherita discovers how robotic milki ...
15-06-2025
BBC 1
Bradford: City Of Culture
As the BBC celebrates this year’s UK City of Culture, we explore how the countryside around Bradford shaped the city and its creative legacy. A story of grit and wool.\n\n ...
09-06-2025
BBC 1
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
Shropshire’s Nature Comeback
Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker are in Shropshire, where landscapes are being brought back to life - floodplains are being rewilded, meadows restored and ancient woodlands reimag ...
26-05-2025
BBC 1
Dyfi River
John Craven and Sean Fletcher are in Mid Wales around the Dyfi river, exploring the hidden stories of wildlife that flock to the area at this time of year - and the people ready ...
19-05-2025
BBC 1
Lambing Special
Lambing season is the crux of the UK’s sheep-farming calendar – a high-stakes, hands-on period that defines rural livelihoods, demands round-the-clock care and shape ...
12-05-2025
BBC 1
Forest Of Bowland
Margherita Taylor and Joe Crowley are in the Forest of Bowland for a sensory spring feast – soaking up the sights, sounds and flavours of the season.\n\nCovering 312 squar ...
05-05-2025
BBC 1
Wembury Coast
John Craven and Vick Hope celebrate new life on the Wembury coast, from high up on the clifftop to the bed of its natural harbour. \n \nThe sea from Wembury to Plymouth makes up ...
28-04-2025
BBC 1
Stroudwater Canal
Charlotte Smith and John Craven explore the Stroudwater canal in Gloucestershire, where a major restoration project is bringing this historic waterway back to life.\n\nAs the fi ...
21-04-2025
BBC 1
Dyfi River
John Craven and Sean Fletcher are in Mid Wales around the Dyfi river, exploring the hidden stories of wildlife that flock to the area at this time of year - and the people ready ...
19-05-2025
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
Review Of The Year Compilation
Sean Fletcher looks back at 2020 – a difficult year for all of us as we faced a pandemic but a year when the countryside became a lifeline for unprecedented numbers; when ...
11-01-2021
BBC 1
Lambing Special
Lambing season is the crux of the UK’s sheep-farming calendar – a high-stakes, hands-on period that defines rural livelihoods, demands round-the-clock care and shape ...
12-05-2025
BBC 1
Countryfile Live
The team are at Countryfile Live, set in the stunning grounds of Blenheim Palace. Matt Baker tries his hand at scurry racing, where it takes skill to handle the horses and make ...
19-08-2018
BBC 1
Ronald Blythe’s Suffolk
John Craven and Margherita Taylor travel to the village of Charsfield in the heart of Suffolk to celebrate one of our most respected rural writers, Ronald Blythe, who passed awa ...
10-07-2023
BBC 1
Easter Treats For Easter Sunday
John Craven visits two villages in Herefordshire to find out about ancient rural Easter customs and traditions from field blessings to grave dressing. Then there's the pax biscu ...
25-04-2022
BBC 1
Review Of The Year
As we usher in 2022, John Craven pays tribute to inspirational young people who are doing their bit for farming and the countryside. John is at College Lake on the edge of the C ...
10-01-2022
BBC 1
Watercress Line
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor commemorate 200 years since the birth of the railways with a journey on the Watercress Line in Alresford, Hampshire. They explore how the advent ...
07-04-2025
BBC 1
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