Sean Casey
Director
Countryfile (1988)
2017
The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
Released July 24, 1988
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.wildlife, tmdb.nature, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.land-art, imdb.rural-sites, imdb.non-fiction, tmdb.countryside + 6 more, tmdb.agriculture, tmdb.farmland, tmdb.landscape, tmdb.farming, tmdb.conservation, tmdb.rural-life
Watch Providers: BritBox Amazon Channel
Production Companies: BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions, BBC Studios Productions
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S30E1 - 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.
Jan. 1, 2017, midnight
S30E2 - 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.
Jan. 8, 2017, midnight
S30E3 - 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.
Jan. 15, 2017, midnight
S30E4 - 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.
Jan. 22, 2017, midnight
S30E5 - Peak District
Countryfile is exploring the Peak District. Matt Baker joins the team on a mission to restore the scarred moorland.
Jan. 29, 2017, midnight
S30E6 - 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.
Feb. 5, 2017, midnight
S30E7 - 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.
Feb. 12, 2017, midnight
S30E8 - 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.
Feb. 19, 2017, midnight
S30E9 - 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.
Feb. 26, 2017, midnight
S30E10 - 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.
March 5, 2017, midnight
S30E11 - 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.
March 12, 2017, midnight
S30E12 - 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.
March 19, 2017, midnight
S30E13 - 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.
March 26, 2017, midnight
S30E14 - 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.
April 2, 2017, midnight
S30E15 - 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.
April 9, 2017, midnight
S30E16 - 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.
April 16, 2017, midnight
S30E17 - 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.
April 23, 2017, midnight
S30E18 - Warwickshire
For Hedgehog Awareness Week, Ellie Harrison meets three schoolgirls on a mission to keep the hedgehogs of Warwickshire safe from harm.
April 30, 2017, midnight
S30E19 - 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.
May 7, 2017, midnight
S30E20 - 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.
May 14, 2017, midnight
S30E21 - 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.
May 21, 2017, midnight
S30E22 - Spring Special
In a spring special edition of the programme Countryfile goes in search of the secret and often overlooked wonders of the season.
May 28, 2017, midnight
S30E23 - 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.
June 4, 2017, midnight
S30E24 - 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.
June 11, 2017, midnight
S30E25 - 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.
June 18, 2017, midnight
S30E26 - 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.
June 25, 2017, midnight
S30E27 - 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.
July 2, 2017, midnight
S30E28 - 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.
July 9, 2017, midnight
S30E29 - 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.
July 16, 2017, midnight
S30E30 - Wiltshire
Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.
July 23, 2017, midnight
S30E31 - 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.
July 30, 2017, midnight
S30E32 - 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.
Aug. 6, 2017, midnight
S30E33 - Dartmoor
Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
Aug. 13, 2017, midnight
S30E34 - 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.
Aug. 20, 2017, midnight
S30E35 - 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.
Aug. 27, 2017, midnight
S30E36 - Harvest
Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.
Sept. 3, 2017, midnight
S30E37 - 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.
Sept. 10, 2017, midnight
S30E38 - Protected Countryside
To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.
Sept. 17, 2017, midnight
S30E39 - 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.
Sept. 24, 2017, midnight
S30E40 - South Yorkshire
Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.
Oct. 1, 2017, midnight
S30E41 - 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.
Oct. 8, 2017, midnight
S30E42 - 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.
Oct. 15, 2017, midnight
S30E43 - 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.
Oct. 22, 2017, midnight
S30E44 - 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.
Oct. 29, 2017, midnight
S30E45 - 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.
Nov. 5, 2017, midnight
S30E46 - Remembrance
Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.
Nov. 12, 2017, midnight
S30E47 - 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.
Nov. 19, 2017, midnight
S30E48 - 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.
Nov. 26, 2017, midnight
S30E49 - 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.
Dec. 3, 2017, midnight
S30E50 - The Brecks
Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
Dec. 10, 2017, midnight
S30E51 - My Countryside Compilation
Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.
Dec. 17, 2017, midnight
S30E52 - 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.
Dec. 24, 2017, midnight
S30E53 - 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.
Dec. 31, 2017, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 108060 min.
Released: July 24, 1988
Last Air Date: June 1, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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