Sean Casey
Director
Countryfile (1988)
2019
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
S32E1 - Vets
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.
Jan. 6, 2019, midnight
S32E2 - Kent
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.
Jan. 13, 2019, midnight
S32E3 - Wiltshire
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.
Jan. 20, 2019, midnight
S32E4 - North Yorkshire
Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.
Jan. 27, 2019, midnight
S32E5 - Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation
Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.
Feb. 3, 2019, midnight
S32E6 - Winter Special
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.
Feb. 10, 2019, midnight
S32E7 - Devon
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.
Feb. 17, 2019, midnight
S32E8 - Gloucestershire
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.
Feb. 24, 2019, midnight
S32E9 - Cheshire and the Wirral
Matt and Ellie explore Cheshire and a wildlife haven in the Wirral, and Hannah Cockroft travels to beautiful North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
March 3, 2019, midnight
S32E10 - Somerset
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.
March 10, 2019, midnight
S32E11 - North West Wales
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.
March 17, 2019, midnight
S32E12 - Food Compilation
Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.
March 24, 2019, midnight
S32E13 - Surrey
Countryfile is exploring Surrey, where Matt Baker meets the women who have inspired generations of conservationists and Helen Skelton visits a biodynamic vineyard.
March 31, 2019, midnight
S32E14 - National Parks
Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.
April 7, 2019, midnight
S32E15 - Shropshire
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.
April 14, 2019, midnight
S32E16 - Herts & Bucks
Matt is in Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire, seeing how an old quarry has become one of the best places for wildlife in the county.
April 21, 2019, midnight
S32E17 - Spring Special
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.
April 28, 2019, midnight
S32E18 - Living on the Edge
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.
May 5, 2019, midnight
S32E19 - Aberdeenshire
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.
May 12, 2019, midnight
S32E20 - Queen Victoria
This month marks 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth, so Countryfile is exploring the Victorian fascination with nature and the great outdoors.
May 19, 2019, midnight
S32E21 - Derbyshire
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.
May 26, 2019, midnight
S32E22 - South Wales
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.
June 2, 2019, midnight
S32E23 - Chalk Streams
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.
June 9, 2019, midnight
S32E24 - West Yorkshire
Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.
June 16, 2019, midnight
S32E25 - Lincolnshire
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.
June 23, 2019, midnight
S32E26 - Caring for Our Planet Compilation
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.
June 30, 2019, midnight
S32E27 - Summer Special - Royal Highland Show
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.
July 7, 2019, midnight
S32E28 - Bedfordshire
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.
July 14, 2019, midnight
S32E29 - Cornwall
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.
July 21, 2019, midnight
S32E30 - Gloucestershire
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.
July 28, 2019, midnight
S32E31 - Norfolk
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.
Aug. 4, 2019, midnight
S32E32 - Perthshire
Countryfile visits Perthshire, where Matt visits Cultybraggan, a former prisoner of war camp that is now a thriving community of artisans and food producers.
Aug. 11, 2019, midnight
S32E33 - Working Animals
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.
Aug. 18, 2019, midnight
S32E34 - Warwickshire
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.
Aug. 25, 2019, midnight
S32E35 - Evacuees Special
This special programme looks back at how the wartime evacuation of children to the countryside shaped the lives of a whole generation.
Sept. 1, 2019, midnight
S32E36 - Northumberland
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.
Sept. 8, 2019, midnight
S32E37 - Dorset
Ellie Harrison joins volunteers restoring the Cerne Abbas Giant, and Charlotte Smith investigates the true scale of domestic abuse in the countryside.
Sept. 15, 2019, midnight
S32E38 - One Man and His Dog
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.
Sept. 22, 2019, midnight
S32E39 - Lake District
Joe Crowley is in Cumbria exploring the Lakes’ wild side, and Charlotte investigates the rise of far-right extremism in the countryside.
Sept. 29, 2019, midnight
S32E40 - Nature's Bounty
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.
Oct. 6, 2019, midnight
S32E41 - Wembury
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.
Oct. 13, 2019, midnight
S32E42 - Forest of Dean
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.
Oct. 20, 2019, midnight
S32E43 - Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need
Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.
Oct. 27, 2019, midnight
S32E44 - Autumn Special
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.
Nov. 3, 2019, midnight
S32E45 - Essex
Matt Baker helps the Essex Wildlife Trust with their first ever winter fish survey on Fingringhoe Wick, a newly created stretch of saltmarsh.
Nov. 10, 2019, midnight
S32E46 - Balcaskie
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.
Nov. 17, 2019, midnight
S32E47 - Conwy and Gwynedd
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.
Nov. 24, 2019, midnight
S32E48 - Tees Valley
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.
Dec. 1, 2019, midnight
S32E49 - Wiltshire
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.
Dec. 8, 2019, midnight
S32E50 - Buckinghamshire
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.
Dec. 15, 2019, midnight
S32E51 - Christmas Special
John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.
Dec. 22, 2019, midnight
S32E52 - Caring for Our Community
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.
Dec. 29, 2019, 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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