Countryfile — Season 30

Aired 1 January 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 8 January 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 15 January 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 January 2017 • 60 min

Countryfile is on the Jurassic Coast, where Matt Baker meets the man who's been digging for fossils for more than thirty years.

Aired 29 January 2017 • 60 min

Countryfile is exploring the Peak District. Matt Baker joins the team on a mission to restore the scarred moorland.

Aired 5 February 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 February 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 19 February 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 February 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 5 March 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 March 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 19 March 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 March 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 2 April 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 9 April 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 16 April 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 23 April 2017 • 60 min

Countryfile is in County Durham, and Matt is on his old home turf, showing how to make panackelty, a traditional north-eastern dish.

Aired 30 April 2017 • 60 min

For Hedgehog Awareness Week, Ellie Harrison meets three schoolgirls on a mission to keep the hedgehogs of Warwickshire safe from harm.

Aired 7 May 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison reveals how the landscape has been shaped by rivers, meeting those who live, work and play on the banks of the Severn.

Aired 14 May 2017 • 60 min

Matt Baker hears about the plans the Suffolk Wildlife Trust are making for their biggest-ever land purchase in the charity's 55 years.

Aired 21 May 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 28 May 2017 • 60 min

In a spring special edition of the programme Countryfile goes in search of the secret and often overlooked wonders of the season.

Aired 4 June 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 June 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 18 June 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 25 June 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 2 July 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 9 July 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 16 July 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 23 July 2017 • 60 min

Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.

Aired 30 July 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 6 August 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison visits a Bristol herb garden to find out about a plant that is on the front line in the fight against cancer.

Aired 13 August 2017 • 60 min

Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.

Aired 20 August 2017 • 60 min

Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.

Aired 27 August 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 3 September 2017 • 60 min

Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.

Aired 10 September 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison visits Mount Edgcumbe on Cornwall's Rame Peninsula, where the UK's first ever native dark honeybee reserve has just opened.

Aired 17 September 2017 • 60 min

To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.

Aired 24 September 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 1 October 2017 • 60 min

Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.

Aired 8 October 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 15 October 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 October 2017 • 60 min

John and Margherita are in Cornwall, where John attends a food festival with a difference. Plus a profile of Cornish artist David Hosking.

Aired 29 October 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 5 November 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 November 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.

Aired 19 November 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 November 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 3 December 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 December 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.

Aired 17 December 2017 • 60 min

Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.

Aired 24 December 2017 • 60 min

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.

Aired 31 December 2017 • 60 min

In New Zealand, Adam Henson meets some old friends, helps with a cattle muster and witnesses sheep farming on a breathtaking scale.