Ellie Harrison
Self - Presenter
Country Tracks (2009)
Season 2
Series celebrating the British countryside.
Released April 19, 2009
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.travel, tmdb.nature, tmdb.landscape
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Cotswolds
Ben Fogle goes on a journey through the Cotswolds, one of the most unspoilt areas in rural Britain, ending up at the farm of Countryfile presenter Adam Henson.
May 23, 2010, midnight
S2E2 - Filey to Winteringham
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey from the Yorkshire coast, to Winteringham, south of the Humber.
June 6, 2010, midnight
S2E3 - Herefordshire
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Herefordshire, stopping off at Lyonshall and canoeing along the River Wye.
July 4, 2010, midnight
S2E4 - Leeds to Scarborough
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a Yorkshire journey, starting with a tour of Leeds and ending at Scarborough Castle.
July 25, 2010, midnight
S2E5 - Kingdom of Fife
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey across the Kingdom of Fife, starting at Dundee and finishing on the Firth of Forth.
Aug. 1, 2010, midnight
S2E6 - Hampshire
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin treks through Hampshire, starting at the New Forest and ending up at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre.
Aug. 8, 2010, midnight
S2E7 - Staffordshire
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Staffordshire, starting at Lichfield Cathedral and ending up at Trentham Forest.
Aug. 15, 2010, midnight
S2E8 - Poole, Dorset
Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Dorset, starting with an RNLI training exercise in Swanage. While at sea, they receive a real alert.
Aug. 22, 2010, midnight
S2E9 - Derbyshire
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Derbyshire. She hang-glides above the high peak before taking a look at the Buxton Water factory and Bakewell puddings.
Aug. 29, 2010, midnight
S2E10 - North West
Liz Bonnin goes on a journey along the North West coast of England, meeting actor Simon O'Brien and exploring the iconic Midland Hotel.
Sept. 5, 2010, midnight
S2E11 - Devon and Cornwall
Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Devon and Cornwall. She starts her journey snorkelling off the coast at Thurlestone, then visits Dartmoor Zoo.
Oct. 3, 2010, midnight
S2E12 - Shropshire
Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Shropshire, starting with a sheep steeplechase near Telford and ending his journey with clay pigeon shooting at Much Wenlock.
Oct. 10, 2010, midnight
S2E13 - Bronte Country
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ben Fogle journeys through the Bronte Country in Yorkshire, meeting poet Char March along the way.
Oct. 17, 2010, midnight
S2E14 - Dunfermline to Melrose
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley journeys from Dunfermline to Melrose, and tells the tale of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Oct. 24, 2010, midnight
S2E15 - Malverns
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin goes on a journey through the Malverns. She starts her journey in Herefordshire.
Oct. 31, 2010, midnight
S2E16 - Kent
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Kent, starting in Whitstable before travelling to Ham and the resurgent town of Margate.
Nov. 7, 2010, midnight
S2E17 - Chilterns
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison journeys through the Chiltern Hills, visiting Whipsnade Zoo and Lord Rothschild's Natural History Museum.
Nov. 21, 2010, midnight
S2E18 - Isle of Wight
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin journeys the Isle of Wight, meeting Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank and paragliding off the cliffs at Compton Bay.
Nov. 28, 2010, midnight
S2E19 - Yorkshire Dales
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Ben Fogle goes on a journey through the Yorkshire Dales, visiting Kingsdale, Malham Cove, Gayle and Harewood Hill.
Dec. 5, 2010, midnight
S2E20 - Lyme Regis, Dorset
Programme celebrating the British countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a journey through Dorset, where she meets a man who makes seemingly impossible stone sculptures.
Dec. 12, 2010, midnight
S2E21 - Sussex Vets
Series celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley journeys around East Sussex, following the work of one of the region's biggest veterinary practices.
Dec. 19, 2010, midnight
S2E22 - Hampshire Land
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Hampshire. She braves the new '3G Swing' at Marwell Activity Centre and checks out the house where Jane Austen lived.
Jan. 9, 2011, midnight
S2E23 - Cotswolds
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through the Cotswolds. She goes wakeboarding at the Cotswold Water Park in Fairford before paying a visit to Snowshill Manor.
Jan. 16, 2011, midnight
S2E24 - Essex
Joe Crowley goes on a journey through Essex, starting his journey among the creeks of the Blackwater Estuary and ending it with the North Weald Fire Rescue volunteers.
Jan. 23, 2011, midnight
S2E25 - Skye
Helen Skelton goes on a journey across the Isle of Skye, learning the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight to Skye and forging a traditional Scottish sword.
Jan. 30, 2011, midnight
S2E26 - Gloucestershire
Liz Bonnin journeys through Gloucestershire. She starts her journey among the trees at Westonbirt's National Aboretum, and ends up inside an inflatable planetarium.
Feb. 6, 2011, midnight
S2E27 - Cornish Coast
Jodie Kidd goes on a Cornish coastal journey. She starts in Quies Rock where she encounters some grey seals and ends it at Porthcurno's spectacular Minack Theatre.
Feb. 13, 2011, midnight
S2E28 - Oxfordshire
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Oxfordshire, paying a visit to one of the country's most famous stately homes and trying out Appalachian-style clog dancing.
Feb. 20, 2011, midnight
S2E29 - Forest of Dean
Liz Bonnin sails along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, in the company of Chris Witts, who skippered the last commercial grain barge to sail into Gloucester Docks.
Feb. 27, 2011, midnight
S2E30 - Harris and Lewis
Helen Skelton goes on a journey across Harris and Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She visits a croft, and joins the Hebridean Challenge, a five-day endurance race.
March 6, 2011, midnight
S2E31 - East Sussex
Joe Crowley goes on a journey through East Sussex. He begins his travels with the South Downs Rangers, and finishes in the Victorian sewers beneath Brighton's streets.
March 13, 2011, midnight
S2E32 - Hampshire Coast
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Hampshire, starting aboard the Whitbread 60 Blueprint in the Solent, and finishing on a free-range pig farm.
March 20, 2011, midnight
S2E33 - River Tweed
Joe Crowley goes on a journey along the River Tweed, following the path of the returning salmon from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Selkirk, on the Scottish side of the border.
March 27, 2011, midnight
S2E34 - South Lake District
Series celebrating the British countryside. Liz Bonnin goes on a journey through the Lake District, starting on Coniston Water and ending up in Kendal.
April 3, 2011, midnight
S2E35 - Snowdonia
Series celebrating the British countryside. Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Snowdonia from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Rhosgadfan.
April 10, 2011, midnight
S2E36 - Farne Islands
Series celebrating the UK countryside. Jodie Kidd goes on a Northumberland journey, riding on horseback at Bamburgh and swimming with seals near the Farne Islands.
May 1, 2011, midnight
S2E37 - Perthshire Cycle
Series celebrating the British countryside. Joe Crowley teams up with adventurer and endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont to explore the Perthshire Highlands.
May 15, 2011, midnight
S2E38 - Bedfordshire
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey through Bedfordshire, from the small market town of Sandy to the Woburn Estate, home to the famous Abbey and Safari Park.
May 29, 2011, midnight
S2E39 - Hadrian's Wall
Jodie Kidd goes on a journey along Hadrian's Wall. She starts her journey at Birdoswald Fort in Cumbria, where she meets some Roman re-enactors.
June 5, 2011, midnight
S2E40 - Lleyn Peninsula
Ellie Harrison goes on a journey along the Lleyn Peninsular in North Wales, climbing up to the mysterious remains of an ancient civilisation.
June 12, 2011, midnight
S2E41 - Exmoor
Mark Beaumont goes on a journey through Exmoor, starting in Dulverton, where he finds out how Exmoor's iconic ponies are being saved from the verge of extinction.
June 19, 2011, midnight
S2E42 - Lancashire Coast
Mark Beaumont follows Lancashire's River Lune to the Irish sea. Along the way he sees kippering in action, hears tales of witchcraft and has his palm read.
July 3, 2011, midnight
S2E43 - London
Joe Crowley explores London's hidden countryside, from the bombed out church transformed into a public park to the historic ponds of Hampstead Heath.
July 17, 2011, midnight
S2E44 - Northamptonshire
Ellie Harrison explores Northamptonshire. She visits the home of the county's famous shoe industry, and discovers the story of Coton Manor's gardens and flamingos.
July 24, 2011, midnight
S2E45 - Kent
Joe Crowley embarks on a curious excursion through Kent, go-karting in Lydd on the south-eastern tip of the UK, and meeting land girls at Brenzett Aeronautical Museum.
July 31, 2011, midnight
S2E46 - Lancashire Forest of Bowland
Mark Beaumont discovers the hidden beauty of the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, uncovering the mysteries of Stonyhurst College along the way.
Aug. 7, 2011, midnight
S2E47 - Norfolk
Joe Crowley journeys though Norfolk, starting on the Broads and ending in Hunstanton, on Norfolk's northern coast. Along the way, he learns to build a survival shelter.
Aug. 14, 2011, midnight
S2E48 - South Wales
Helen Skelton explores the spectacular South Wales coast, visiting Manor House Wildlife Park and Dylan Thomas's boathouse along the way.
Aug. 21, 2011, midnight
S2E49 - South Lincolnshire
Joe Crowley explores south Lincolnshire. He starts his journey near Stamford at Burghley House, and gets a rare insight into the famous Burghley horse trials.
Aug. 28, 2011, midnight
S2E50 - North Lake District
Liz Bonnin explores the Lake District. She starts her journey in Whinlatter Forest, travels through Keswick, and finishes at a pudding club in Ambleside.
Sept. 4, 2011, midnight
S2E51 - Mid Wales
Miriam Cooke meanders through the mystic majesty of mid Wales, starting at the UK's tallest single drop waterfall, and walking along a section of the Cambrian Way.
Sept. 11, 2011, midnight
S2E52 - North Lincolnshire
Joe Crowley explores North Lincolnshire, scaling the heights of Lincoln Cathedral and discovering the secret life of British poet Lord Tennyson.
Oct. 2, 2011, midnight
S2E53 - Somerset
Round-the-world cyclist Mark Beaumont takes his bike to Somerset, where he meets Tour of Britain cycle race organisers and visits Bath's famous Roman spas.
Oct. 9, 2011, midnight
S2E54 - Surrey
Ellie Harrison discovers what makes Surrey special, beginning with a trip to the home of the greatest flat horse race in the world and ending at Watts Gallery in Compton.
Oct. 23, 2011, midnight
S2E55 - Islay
Joe Crowley travels west from the mainland of Scotland to the Isle of Islay, the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, which has lots to offer the intrepid traveller.
Nov. 6, 2011, midnight
S2E56 - Bristol Channel
Helen Skelton travels along the English shore of the Bristol Channel. Helen begins her journey by visiting the hidden village of Culbone.
Nov. 20, 2011, midnight
S2E57 - Cambridge
Joe Crowley takes a journey through Cambridgeshire, where he goes punting on the River Cam and searches for elusive glow worms at Cherry Hinton quarry.
Nov. 27, 2011, midnight
S2E58 - Suffolk
Helen Skelton travels through East Anglia. She visits the small village of Rede, where she discovers one of the rarest horse breeds in the world - the Suffolk punch.
Dec. 4, 2011, midnight
S2E59 - Thames Path
Joe Crowley takes a journey from the Thames flood barrier at Woolwich to the coast at Southend-on-Sea. At Woolwich Joe hears about the tragic floods of 1953.
Dec. 18, 2011, midnight
S2E60 - Hertfordshire
Ellie Harrison peeks through the keyhole of some of Hertfordshire's homes and gardens, planting trees in St Albans and visiting the former home of Barbara Cartland.
Jan. 8, 2012, midnight
S2E61 - South Devon
Joe Crowley tours sunny South Devon, including a visit to Dawlish, where gardening legend Toby Buckland takes him on a tour of his favourite horticultural hotspots.
Jan. 15, 2012, midnight
S2E62 - Wiltshire
Helen Skelton tours the mysterious grasslands of Wiltshire. She begins her journey amongst Wiltshire's ancient landscape by climbing Europe's largest man-made mound.
Jan. 22, 2012, midnight
S2E63 - Cornwall
Joe Crowley explores the southern tip of Cornwall. His journey begins near Padstow, peering into the hidden beach caves that provide inspiration to a local painter.
Jan. 29, 2012, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 6120 min.
Released: April 19, 2009
Last Air Date: Jan. 29, 2012, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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