Countryfile (Season 27)

The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.

  • Poster for Compilation - The Countryfile Calendar Year

    Compilation - The Countryfile Calendar Year (Episode 1)

    Air date: 2014-01-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven looks at the year ahead, visits the Killerton Estate and introduces some choice Countryfile films from the last few years.

  • Poster for Surrey

    Surrey (Episode 2)

    Air date: 2014-01-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: A visit to Conan Doyle's Surrey home. Plus Leicester longwool sheep, an artist who loves horses, and David Cameron's pledge to discourage new developments near villages.

  • Poster for Winter Special

    Winter Special (Episode 3)

    Air date: 2014-01-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Julia Bradbury and John Hammond learn why the UK gets the unique winters it does. Landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy visits Dumfries and Galloway to create a new work of art.

  • Poster for Gwaun Valley

    Gwaun Valley (Episode 4)

    Air date: 2014-01-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison and John Craven visit Pembrokeshire's Gwaun Valley and Preseli Hills. Ellie discovers Iron Age treasures, and John samples the local homebrew.

  • Poster for Worcestershire

    Worcestershire (Episode 5)

    Air date: 2014-02-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team is in Worcestershire. Matt Baker visits Witley Court, while Helen Skelton meets the creatures of the Wyre Forest and cooks up a Malvern pudding.

  • Poster for The Lake District

    The Lake District (Episode 6)

    Air date: 2014-02-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team is in the Lake District, looking in detail at some of the locations featured in the opening titles of the programme.

  • Poster for Wiltshire

    Wiltshire (Episode 7)

    Air date: 2014-02-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team visits the rural county of Wiltshire. Matt Baker visits a pig farm, and Julia Bradbury looks at the birds that call the UK home in the winter months.

  • Poster for Portland

    Portland (Episode 8)

    Air date: 2014-02-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is on the Isle of Portland, off the Dorset coast. Matt Baker visits Portland's lighthouses, while Julia Bradbury explores the famous Portland stone quarries.

  • Poster for Kent

    Kent (Episode 9)

    Air date: 2014-03-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: In Kent, Matt Baker island hops to Elmley Marshes on the Isle of Sheppey, Ellie Harrison explores Knole House in Sevenoaks and John Craven finds out about Kentish blue cheese.

  • Poster for Perthshire

    Perthshire (Episode 10)

    Air date: 2014-03-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison meets scientists bringing endangered conifer species back to Scotland and also discovers what impact beavers are having on the countryside.

  • Poster for Somerset

    Somerset (Episode 11)

    Air date: 2014-03-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team head to Somerset, which has taken a battering from the winter storms. Matt Baker meets the locals who have come together to create a silage food bank.

  • Poster for Compilation - Beaches

    Compilation - Beaches (Episode 12)

    Air date: 2014-03-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison sees how the beaches of Norfolk are bouncing back from December's storm surge and looks back at some of Countryfile's best beach-themed stories.

  • Poster for Co Durham

    Co Durham (Episode 13)

    Air date: 2014-03-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in the beautiful County Durham, where Matt Baker helps his mother with lambing, and Ellie Harrison learns about the farmsteads of Weardale.

  • Poster for Gloucestershire

    Gloucestershire (Episode 14)

    Air date: 2014-04-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile has an exclusive interview with the Princess Royal at her home, Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire; and Ellie Harrison meets the experts at Kew Gardens.

  • Poster for Southport

    Southport (Episode 15)

    Air date: 2014-04-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team visit the Merseyside coast around Southport. Matt Baker looks at the history of shrimping in the area, and Ellie Harrison visits a family potato farm.

  • Poster for Isles of Scilly

    Isles of Scilly (Episode 16)

    Air date: 2014-04-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The team head to the Isles of Scilly. Ellie Harrison looks at the problem of rats on the islands, while Matt Baker helps transport 50 ducklings to a duck farm.

  • Poster for Yorkshire Dales

    Yorkshire Dales (Episode 17)

    Air date: 2014-04-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison go in search of the great icons of Yorkshire. Tom Heap asks if eating horse meat could help solve the crisis over abandoned horses.

  • Poster for Hills and Mountains Compilation

    Hills and Mountains Compilation (Episode 18)

    Air date: 2014-05-04

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison explores some of Britain's most spectacular hills and mountains, revealing that an iconic mountain is up for sale.

  • Poster for Lee Valley

    Lee Valley (Episode 19)

    Air date: 2014-05-11

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in the Lee Valley, the green lung of London. Ellie takes to the water to see what is being done to clean up its chalk streams.

  • Poster for 18/05/2014

    18/05/2014 (Episode 20)

    Air date: 2014-05-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Special edition of Countryfile. Ellie Harrison listens to the dawn chorus, Matt Baker searches for cranes, and Adam Henson goes on a voyage of discovery with John Hammond.

  • Poster for Shropshire

    Shropshire (Episode 21)

    Air date: 2014-05-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Shropshire, where Matt Baker discovers the garden that inspired Charles Darwin's thinking and Ellie Harrison learns of a special restoration project.

  • Poster for Buckinghamshire

    Buckinghamshire (Episode 22)

    Air date: 2014-06-01

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: In Buckinghamshire, Matt Baker visits Waddesdon Manor and learns about the Rothschild family, while Ellie Harrison discovers creatures great and small.

  • Poster for Transformations Compilation

    Transformations Compilation (Episode 23)

    Air date: 2014-06-08

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Helen Skelton is in Snowdonia looking at how the landscape has undergone many transformations down the ages, it is an area that has never stood still.

  • Poster for Port Talbot

    Port Talbot (Episode 24)

    Air date: 2014-06-15

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Port Talbot in South Wales. Ellie has a go at the country's fastest-growing watersport. Matt is in pursuit of an unusual animal.

  • Poster for Oxenhope

    Oxenhope (Episode 25)

    Air date: 2014-06-22

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison and John Craven are in and around Oxenhope in West Yorkshire. They see how the county is gearing up for the start of the Tour de France.

  • Poster for Lincolnshire

    Lincolnshire (Episode 26)

    Air date: 2014-06-29

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison visit Lincolnshire, where Matt meets one of the last surviving members of the Dambusters squadron and Ellie hunts for the man orchid.

  • Poster for Peak District

    Peak District (Episode 27)

    Air date: 2014-07-06

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in the Peak District where John Craven is on the set of the BBC drama, The Village, and Tom Heap looks at the value of the British shooting industry.

  • Poster for Gower

    Gower (Episode 28)

    Air date: 2014-07-13

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Gower, south Wales, where Matt Baker explores Whiteford Burrows and explodes previously unearthed World War II ordnance on the sands with the MOD.

  • Poster for John Craven's 25th Anniversary

    John Craven's 25th Anniversary (Episode 29)

    Air date: 2014-07-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile takes a trip down memory lane with the legend John Craven as he celebrates 25 years on the show.

  • Poster for Cornwall

    Cornwall (Episode 30)

    Air date: 2014-08-03

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker joins foragers scouring the coast of Cornwall for free food and Anita Rani makes an explosive entrance in her first show as she blasts 26,000 tonnes of rock.

  • Poster for Summer Special

    Summer Special (Episode 31)

    Air date: 2014-08-10

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team head to the Cotswold County Show in Cirencester for a celebration of the best of rural Britain, bringing along special guests.

  • Poster for Northern Ireland

    Northern Ireland (Episode 32)

    Air date: 2014-08-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven and Shauna Lowry head for the Sperrin Mountains, James Wong has the latest from the Grow Wild campaign and Adam Henson explores the world of ticks.

  • Poster for Herefordshire

    Herefordshire (Episode 33)

    Air date: 2014-08-24

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven and Anita Rani are in Herefordshire exploring the county's burgeoning foodie culture. John meets Simon Cutter, a farmer breeding pure Hereford cattle.

  • Poster for Kids Countryside

    Kids Countryside (Episode 34)

    Air date: 2014-08-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: In this bank holiday edition of the programme Helen Skelton looks at how the British countryside has shaped childhoods down the ages.

  • Poster for Staffordshire

    Staffordshire (Episode 35)

    Air date: 2014-08-31

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Jules Hudson and Ellie Harrison are in Staffordshire exploring its wide open moorlands and the imposing millstone grit ridges of the Roaches.

  • Poster for Stourbridge

    Stourbridge (Episode 36)

    Air date: 2014-09-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in the Black Country, where they visit 18th-century English gardens Hagley Park and the Leasowes and the mysterious Kinver Rock Houses.

  • Poster for Norfolk

    Norfolk (Episode 37)

    Air date: 2014-09-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Norfolk, where Jules Hudson is given access to MOD training grounds in the Brecklands and Anita Rani meets an artist who paints the workers of the land.

  • Poster for Devon

    Devon (Episode 38)

    Air date: 2014-09-21

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Devon, where Matt Baker explores Dartmoor and Anita Rani meets a sculptor who is inspired by the ancient trees in the Devon landscape.

  • Poster for One Man and His Dog

    One Man and His Dog (Episode 39)

    Air date: 2014-09-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile plays host to the One Man and His Dog sheepdog trials, and Matt Baker and Helen Skelton present all the action from Byland Abbey.

  • Poster for Harvest

    Harvest (Episode 40)

    Air date: 2014-10-05

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt finds out how the latest technology is helping farmers get the harvest in quickly and efficiently and John announces the winner of the year's photographic competition.

  • Poster for Music Compilation

    Music Compilation (Episode 41)

    Air date: 2014-10-12

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven explores the life and work of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and looks back at some other best bits of Countryfile that featured music.

  • Poster for Autumn Special

    Autumn Special (Episode 42)

    Air date: 2014-10-19

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: In this seasonal special the team look at how autumn marks a time of transformation for the wildlife, landscape and communities of the countryside.

  • Poster for Northumberland

    Northumberland (Episode 43)

    Air date: 2014-10-26

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Matt and Ellie are in Northumberland, where they visit Hadrian's Wall and experience some of the best dark skies in England.

  • Poster for Isle of Wight

    Isle of Wight (Episode 44)

    Air date: 2014-11-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The team are on the Isle of Wight, where Matt Baker strolls along the oldest pier in the UK and Ellie Harrison visits Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's private beach.

  • Poster for World War One Special

    World War One Special (Episode 45)

    Air date: 2014-11-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: In an extended programme for Remembrance Sunday, Countryfile explores the First World War's lasting legacy on the landscape of the western front.

  • Poster for Crafts of the Countryside

    Crafts of the Countryside (Episode 46)

    Air date: 2014-11-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison looks back through the Countryfile archive to revisit the crafts of the countryside. She also visits Acton Scott, a historic working farm.

  • Poster for Berkshire

    Berkshire (Episode 47)

    Air date: 2014-11-23

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Berkshire. John Craven visits the county's agricultural college, Shauna Lowry is in the valley of the racehorse and Sanjida O'Connell walks the Ridgeway.

  • Poster for Lancashire

    Lancashire (Episode 48)

    Air date: 2014-11-30

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Countryfile is in Lancashire. John Craven explores one of the county's hidden jewels and Ellie Harrison investigates the sculptural art of the area.

  • Poster for East Sussex

    East Sussex (Episode 49)

    Air date: 2014-12-07

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven and Helen Skelton are in East Sussex, where Helen discovers a long-forgotten chronicler of the county's rural past and John takes a stroll around Batemans.

  • Poster for Clwydian Range

    Clwydian Range (Episode 50)

    Air date: 2014-12-14

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: Ellie Harrison and Matt Baker are in the Clwydian range which spans Denbighshire and Flintshire in North Wales, where Matt joins the team cutting back heather.

  • Poster for Christmas Special

    Christmas Special (Episode 51)

    Air date: 2014-12-21

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: The Countryfile team go out and about at Christmas before meeting up at the Christmas market in Bath.

  • Poster for Celebrations Compilation

    Celebrations Compilation (Episode 52)

    Air date: 2014-12-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: John Craven is on the South Downs gathering goodies to throw his own festive party, toasting the taste of the South Downs.

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