The people, places and stories making news in the British countryside.
Countryfile (Season 32)
Vets (Episode 1)
Air date: 2019-01-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Kent (Episode 2)
Air date: 2019-01-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Wiltshire (Episode 3)
Air date: 2019-01-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
North Yorkshire (Episode 4)
Air date: 2019-01-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread shows us her sculpture, commissioned to mark the Forestry Commission's centenary.
Winter Wildlife Rescue Compilation (Episode 5)
Air date: 2019-02-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Steve Brown visits Lower Moss Wood nature reserve in Cheshire to meet the volunteers and is shown the specialist hospital unit.
Winter Special (Episode 6)
Air date: 2019-02-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Devon (Episode 7)
Air date: 2019-02-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Gloucestershire (Episode 8)
Air date: 2019-02-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Cheshire and the Wirral (Episode 9)
Air date: 2019-03-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt and Ellie explore Cheshire and a wildlife haven in the Wirral, and Hannah Cockroft travels to beautiful North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
Somerset (Episode 10)
Air date: 2019-03-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
North West Wales (Episode 11)
Air date: 2019-03-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Food Compilation (Episode 12)
Air date: 2019-03-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Sean is in Oxfordshire meeting farmers with a passion for our more unusual produce, from picklers to cheesemakers.
Surrey (Episode 13)
Air date: 2019-03-31
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Countryfile is exploring Surrey, where Matt Baker meets the women who have inspired generations of conservationists and Helen Skelton visits a biodynamic vineyard.
National Parks (Episode 14)
Air date: 2019-04-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt Baker, John Craven and Margherita Taylor mark the 70th anniversary of the creation of our national parks.
Shropshire (Episode 15)
Air date: 2019-04-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Herts & Bucks (Episode 16)
Air date: 2019-04-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt is in Panshanger Park in Hertfordshire, seeing how an old quarry has become one of the best places for wildlife in the county.
Spring Special (Episode 17)
Air date: 2019-04-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Living on the Edge (Episode 18)
Air date: 2019-05-05
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Aberdeenshire (Episode 19)
Air date: 2019-05-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Queen Victoria (Episode 20)
Air date: 2019-05-19
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This month marks 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth, so Countryfile is exploring the Victorian fascination with nature and the great outdoors.
Derbyshire (Episode 21)
Air date: 2019-05-26
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
South Wales (Episode 22)
Air date: 2019-06-02
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Chalk Streams (Episode 23)
Air date: 2019-06-09
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
West Yorkshire (Episode 24)
Air date: 2019-06-16
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt Baker visits the beautiful Hardcastle Crags near Hebden Bridge, and John Craven launches this year's photographic competition.
Lincolnshire (Episode 25)
Air date: 2019-06-23
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Caring for Our Planet Compilation (Episode 26)
Air date: 2019-06-30
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Summer Special - Royal Highland Show (Episode 27)
Air date: 2019-07-07
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Bedfordshire (Episode 28)
Air date: 2019-07-14
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Cornwall (Episode 29)
Air date: 2019-07-21
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Gloucestershire (Episode 30)
Air date: 2019-07-28
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Norfolk (Episode 31)
Air date: 2019-08-04
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Perthshire (Episode 32)
Air date: 2019-08-11
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Countryfile visits Perthshire, where Matt visits Cultybraggan, a former prisoner of war camp that is now a thriving community of artisans and food producers.
Working Animals (Episode 33)
Air date: 2019-08-18
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Warwickshire (Episode 34)
Air date: 2019-08-25
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Evacuees Special (Episode 35)
Air date: 2019-09-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: This special programme looks back at how the wartime evacuation of children to the countryside shaped the lives of a whole generation.
Northumberland (Episode 36)
Air date: 2019-09-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Dorset (Episode 37)
Air date: 2019-09-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Ellie Harrison joins volunteers restoring the Cerne Abbas Giant, and Charlotte Smith investigates the true scale of domestic abuse in the countryside.
One Man and His Dog (Episode 38)
Air date: 2019-09-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Lake District (Episode 39)
Air date: 2019-09-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Joe Crowley is in Cumbria exploring the Lakes’ wild side, and Charlotte investigates the rise of far-right extremism in the countryside.
Nature's Bounty (Episode 40)
Air date: 2019-10-06
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Wembury (Episode 41)
Air date: 2019-10-13
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Forest of Dean (Episode 42)
Air date: 2019-10-20
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children In Need (Episode 43)
Air date: 2019-10-27
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt Baker leads the fifth annual Countryfile Ramble for BBC Children in Need.
Autumn Special (Episode 44)
Air date: 2019-11-03
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Essex (Episode 45)
Air date: 2019-11-10
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: Matt Baker helps the Essex Wildlife Trust with their first ever winter fish survey on Fingringhoe Wick, a newly created stretch of saltmarsh.
Balcaskie (Episode 46)
Air date: 2019-11-17
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Conwy and Gwynedd (Episode 47)
Air date: 2019-11-24
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Tees Valley (Episode 48)
Air date: 2019-12-01
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Wiltshire (Episode 49)
Air date: 2019-12-08
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Buckinghamshire (Episode 50)
Air date: 2019-12-15
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Christmas Special (Episode 51)
Air date: 2019-12-22
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: John Craven and the team are at Tyntesfield in Somerset, a stately pile that celebrates Christmas in high Victorian style.
Caring for Our Community (Episode 52)
Air date: 2019-12-29
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
