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Sean Fletcher and Anita Rani explore the rugged hills and valleys of west Exmoor, where landscape-scale change is occurring with the introduction of large animals to aid nature restoration.

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September 2024
Charlotte and Matt have security clearance to enter Salisbury Plain, where they find out how the Ministry of Defence maintain a balance between military training, farming and conservation.
Joe Crowley visits the Dorset coast to team up with a local fly fisherman as he takes on one of the UK’s most difficult fish to catch – the mullet.
John Craven, Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope pick the final 12 images that will grace the 2025 Countryfile calendar in aid of BBC Children in Need.
August 2024
Sean Fletcher explores Borrowdale Oakwoods, England’s largest remaining temperate rainforest and one of the rarest habitats on earth.
Ellie Harrison is in the Cotswolds to visit the eccentric folly Broadway Tower. Also, a look back through the Countryfile archive to encounters with unusual events in the countryside.
Joe Crowley is on Isle Martin, a dot of an island off the west coast of Scotland, as it prepares to host Scotland’s very first seaweed festival.
Ellie Harrison discovers how our countryside can provide the perfect tonic in troubled times, and we look through the archives to rediscover the restorative potential of our green spaces.
In Gloucestershire, Ellie Harrison visits Nature in Art, the world’s first museum and art gallery dedicated to art inspired by nature.
With over 7,000 livestock being shown, and an expected turnout of 250,000 people, Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith are at one of the largest agricultural shows in Europe – the Royal Welsh.
Joe Crowley visits Box Hill in Surrey to take on its infamous zigzag cycle route, and the team look back at some of the best thrills and spills from the Countryfile archives.
Joe Crowley and chef Romy Gill celebrate the glories of seasonal food. Joe also delves into the world of no-dig farming and helps pack orders at a veg box business.
Anita Rani visits Blackburn with fashion designer Patrick Grant to find out about the growing field-to-fashion movement. She tries her hand at spinning and finds out about growing woad.
Ellie Harrison is at Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue to help care for injured creatures great and small, and to find out why the centre has been so busy that it had to temporarily close its doors.
Sean Fletcher visits Whitby, the setting for the novel Dracula, published 125 years ago. He meets people protecting Whitby's coastline and introduces clips about coastal Britain from the archives.
Joe Crowley is on the lookout for some of the UK’s most elusive animals at Thursley National Nature Reserve in Surrey, one of the largest remaining areas of heathland.
John Craven is at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire to help with an ambitious 20-year restoration project. He also delves into the archives, revisiting other Countryfile renovation stories.
Anita and Matt are at the lowest point in the UK, the Fens, to explore the way wildlife and people coexist at and below sea level.
July 2024
Joe Crowley visits Chew Valley and learns about one of the UK's largest farming projects. He also discovers how the wider Chew Valley inspires those who work and live in the local area.
Charlotte Smith and Sean Fletcher are on Hengistbury Head in Dorset, where a large-scale engineering project is set to save huge swathes of this coastline from being lost to the sea.
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