Sean Casey
Director
Countryfile (1988)
2018
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
S31E1 - Ribble Valley
Matt Baker is in the Gisburn Forest and meets the people who make the most of what nature has to offer here. Anita Rani is on a farm which is looking to the future.
Jan. 7, 2018, midnight
S31E2 - Somerset Levels
In the Somerset Levels, Matt Baker is on the hunt for the common crane, a bird that has been brought back from the brink and which now thrives in the area.
Jan. 14, 2018, midnight
S31E3 - Leicestershire
Anita Rani visits Leicester University's herbarium to investigate the city's plants' past, present and future, and Tom Heap looks at the rural fire services.
Jan. 21, 2018, midnight
S31E4 - Perth and Kinross
Matt Baker visits a farm in Crieff to meet two brothers from a family famous in the sport of curling, discovering how Olympic training fits around farming.
Jan. 28, 2018, midnight
S31E5 - Winter Special
Matt Baker meets the Dorset man championing local winter produce. Anita Rani finds out how making jewellery inspired by nature can improve the winter blues.
Feb. 4, 2018, midnight
S31E6 - Cambridgeshire
Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in Cambridgeshire, where Matt looks at a huge project to turn a quarry into the UK's biggest reed bed.
Feb. 11, 2018, midnight
S31E7 - Anglesey
Matt Baker and Anita Rani are in Anglesey, where Matt is on the lookout for harbour porpoises and Anita finds out what's behind the boom in Menai mussels.
Feb. 18, 2018, midnight
S31E8 - Derbyshire
Matt Baker and Helen Skelton are in Derbyshire, where Matt is exploring the boom in farming alpacas. Tom Heap looks at illegal abattoirs.
Feb. 25, 2018, midnight
S31E9 - Waterworlds Compilation
Helen Skelton is at Kielder Water in Northumberland, exploring the ways in which water shapes our lives. Plus watery worlds from the Countryfile archive.
March 4, 2018, midnight
S31E10 - The Lothians and Borders
Matt Baker visits St Abbs - a community who refused to let their lifeboat service go under.
March 11, 2018, midnight
S31E11 - Pembrokeshire
Ellie Harrison is in Pembrokeshire looking at the effect of recent storms on the coastline.
Adam Henson is in Scotland exploring the mystery behind some missing upland sheep.
Tom Heap looks at the problems faced by the UK's sheep farmers and asks why people have fallen out of love with lamb.
March 18, 2018, midnight
S31E12 - Shropshire
Matt Baker immerses himself in Shropshire Wildlife Trust's Love Your Rivers project. It's a huge conservation operation, involving 12 organisations.
March 25, 2018, midnight
S31E13 - West Yorkshire
Matt, Anita 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.
April 1, 2018, midnight
S31E14 - Loch Ness
Sean Fletcher and Naomi Wilkinson are in the wilds around Loch Ness. They travel to to Glenurquhart where they go head to head in a game of shinty.
April 8, 2018, midnight
S31E15 - Cumbria
Matt Baker and Anita Rani are in West Cumbria where Matt takes a wild and bracing walk along a brand new section of the England Coast Path on Walney Island near Barrow.
April 15, 2018, midnight
S31E16 - Heritage Crafts
Anita Rani is in Norfolk meeting the people keeping some of the UK's vanishing trades alive, including a millwright and a reed cutter.
April 22, 2018, midnight
S31E17 - Cornwall
Matt Baker is in Cornwall to meet Julian Jackson, who lost his sight in 2010 and is raising money for a vision charity by walking from Land's End to John O'Groats.
April 29, 2018, midnight
S31E18 - Northumberland
Anita Rani is in Rothbury, being put through her paces with the mountain rescue team and hearing how new technologies are helping search-and-rescue operations.
May 6, 2018, midnight
S31E19 - Hampshire
The team are in Hampshire, where Matt Baker hears about a project championing the use of local wood. John Craven hears how oysters are being reintroduced to the Solent.
May 13, 2018, midnight
S31E20 - Spring Special
Ellie Harrison meets the designer who's creating a celebratory 30th anniversary Countryfile garden for the Hampton Court Flower Show.
May 20, 2018, midnight
S31E21 - Royal Special: Windsor
To celebrate 65 years since Her Majesty's coronation, Countryfile, also celebrating its 30th anniversary, has been given unprecedented access to the Queen's Windsor estate.
May 27, 2018, midnight
S31E22 - Royal Special: Balmoral
To celebrate 65 years since HM the Queen's coronation, Countryfile has been given unprecedented access to the Queen's Balmoral estate.
June 3, 2018, midnight
S31E23 - Royal Special: Sandringham
To celebrate 65 years since Her Majesty's coronation, Countryfile visits the Queen's Sandringham estate. Adam Henson looks into the farming history of Sandringham.
June 10, 2018, midnight
S31E24 - Northern Ireland
Sean Fletcher, Margherita Taylor and Steve Brown are in Northern Ireland. John Craven launches the Countryfile Photographic Competition with Cerys Matthews.
June 17, 2018, midnight
S31E25 - West Sussex
In West Sussex, Matt explores the phenomenon of 'champing' - where people pay to stay in churches - and Ellie meets Maya Leonard, a self-proclaimed insect activist.
June 24, 2018, midnight
S31E26 - Dorset
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are in Dorset, where Matt spends time at Lorton Meadows, a nature reserve renowned for its birds of prey.
July 1, 2018, midnight
S31E27 - Hampton Court
Ellie Harrison and Sean Fletcher explore the grounds and surrounds of Hampton Court Palace, which is home to the last stable of working shire horses in London.
July 8, 2018, midnight
S31E28 - The Seven Wonders of Wales
Sean Fletcher introduces his 'seven wonders of Wales' - the mountains, hill farming, heritage, wildlife, castles, food and the coastline.
July 15, 2018, midnight
S31E29 - 30th Anniversary
To celebrate Countryfile's 30th anniversary, John Craven takes us through 30 of the most memorable moments from the programme from the past three decades.
July 22, 2018, midnight
S31E30 - Exmoor
In Exmoor, Margherita Taylor meets those doing all they can to restore the habitat, and numbers, of the UK's most endangered butterfly - the high brown fritillary.
July 29, 2018, midnight
S31E31 - East Yorkshire
John, Margherita and Steve are in East Yorkshire where John takes a trip down memory lane to the seaside holidays of his youth.
Aug. 5, 2018, midnight
S31E32 - Nottinghamshire
Matt, Ellie and Steve are in Nottinghamshire where Matt reports on the plight of the original Bramley apple tree and there's a double hit of wildlife from Ellie.
Aug. 12, 2018, midnight
S31E33 - Countryfile Live
The team are at Countryfile Live, set in the stunning grounds of Blenheim Palace. Steve Brown goes backstage at the first ever British charcuterie awards.
Aug. 19, 2018, midnight
S31E34 - North Wales
Matt and Margherita are in north Wales where Matt discovers how miniature technology could tell us more about the habits of one of our best-loved insects.
Aug. 26, 2018, midnight
S31E35 - Saltmarsh, Sand and Sea
Steve Brown goes on a tour of the Isle of Sheppey. A flat landscape typified by saltmarsh, sea and big skies, this is a wilderness full of wildlife.
Sept. 2, 2018, midnight
S31E36 - Essex
Anita Rani and John Craven visit Essex. Anita hears how timber that has travelled around the world from the tropics to the UK is being up-cycled and repurposed.
Sept. 9, 2018, midnight
S31E37 - Harvest
Helen Skelton visits a farm in York to hear how carrots are in crisis. The extremes of weather have lead to the lowest yields for decades and the highest levels of imports.
Sept. 16, 2018, midnight
S31E38 - One Man and His Dog
The British Isles' top shepherds and their collies descend on the small village of Llansteffan in south Wales as we host Countryfile's One Man and His Dog 2018.
Sept. 23, 2018, midnight
S31E39 - Hereford
The team are in Herefordshire visiting a habitat creation project, harvesting hops and learning about the new-found popularity of a medieval apple drink called verjuice.
Sept. 30, 2018, midnight
S31E40 - Wildlife Special
Ellie Harrison takes a look at the state of the country's wildlife - the pressures it is under, the challenges it faces and the prospects for vulnerable species.
Oct. 7, 2018, midnight
S31E41 - A Different Day Out
Ellie Harrison is in Derbyshire to explore ideas for a different day out, including building a makeshift raft and taking in an arts trail.
Oct. 14, 2018, midnight
S31E42 - Autumn Special
Matt Baker is on the Isle of Skye otter spotting, Anita Rani visits the Ards Peninsular, and Steve Brown experiences the beauty of autumn leaves in miniature.
Oct. 21, 2018, midnight
S31E43 - Ramble for BBC Children in Need
The fourth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need features the show's presenters leading rambles across the UK, joined by viewers and inspirational youngsters.
Oct. 28, 2018, midnight
S31E44 - Worcestershire
Countryfile visits Worcestershire, where Matt Baker finds out about plans to save Pershore Lock Island and encourage more wildlife to live there.
Nov. 4, 2018, midnight
S31E45 - East Sussex
Countryfile visits East Sussex, where Sean Fletcher meets the family with a passion for poultry.
Nov. 11, 2018, midnight
S31E46 - Cambridgeshire
Countryfile visits Cambridgeshire, where Anita Rani is at the 40th annual hedge-laying competition and meets a painter who finds trees totally inspiring.
Nov. 18, 2018, midnight
S31E47 - Suffolk
Countryfile is in Suffolk, where John Craven takes to the water to meet the Walberswick ferrywomen. He also finds out about the age-old craft of pargetting.
Nov. 25, 2018, midnight
S31E48 - County Durham
Countryfile is in County Durham, where Helen Skelton finds out about the traditional rapper dance of the region and Steve Brown finds out about fancy pigeon showing.
Dec. 2, 2018, midnight
S31E49 - Isle of Wight
John Craven, Helen Skelton and Margherita Taylor are on the Isle of Wight, where John meets the amateur dinosaur hunter finding new prehistoric creatures.
Dec. 9, 2018, midnight
S31E50 - Cairngorms
In the Cairngorms, Matt Baker meets Tilly Smith and her herd of 150 reindeer, whose grazing habits are being studied by scientists to assess their environmental impact.
Dec. 16, 2018, midnight
S31E51 - Christmas Special
Matt Baker and the team are in the small village of Elsdon in Northumberland, where preparations are in full swing for a big Christmas bash.
Dec. 23, 2018, midnight
S31E52 - Countryfile's Inspirational Women
Anita Rani is in Yorkshire celebrating some of the many remarkable women who have been featured on the programme over the years.
Dec. 30, 2018, 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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