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Season guide

Countryfile Season 27 — Episodes and Where to Watch

52 episodes · first aired 2014-01-05

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Episode guide

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Episode 1: Compilation - The Countryfile Calendar Year

2014-01-0560 min

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

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Episode 2: Surrey

2014-01-1260 min

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.

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Episode 3: Winter Special

2014-01-1960 min

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.

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Episode 4: Gwaun Valley

2014-01-2660 min

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

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Episode 5: Worcestershire

2014-02-0260 min

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.

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Episode 6: The Lake District

2014-02-0960 min

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

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Episode 7: Wiltshire

2014-02-1660 min

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.

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Episode 8: Portland

2014-02-2360 min

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.

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Episode 9: Kent

2014-03-0260 min

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.

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Episode 10: Perthshire

2014-03-0960 min

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

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Episode 11: Somerset

2014-03-1660 min

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.

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Episode 12: Compilation - Beaches

2014-03-2360 min

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.

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Episode 13: Co Durham

2014-03-3060 min

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

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Episode 14: Gloucestershire

2014-04-0660 min

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.

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Episode 15: Southport

2014-04-1360 min

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.

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Episode 16: Isles of Scilly

2014-04-2060 min

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.

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Episode 17: Yorkshire Dales

2014-04-2760 min

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.

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Episode 18: Hills and Mountains Compilation

2014-05-0460 min

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

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Episode 19: Lee Valley

2014-05-1160 min

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.

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Episode 20: 18/05/2014

2014-05-1860 min

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.

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Episode 21: Shropshire

2014-05-2560 min

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.

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Episode 22: Buckinghamshire

2014-06-0160 min

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

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Episode 23: Transformations Compilation

2014-06-0860 min

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.

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Episode 24: Port Talbot

2014-06-1560 min

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.

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Episode 25: Oxenhope

2014-06-2260 min

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.

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Episode 26: Lincolnshire

2014-06-2960 min

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.

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Episode 27: Peak District

2014-07-0660 min

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.

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Episode 28: Gower

2014-07-1360 min

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.

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Episode 29: John Craven's 25th Anniversary

2014-07-2060 min

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

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Episode 30: Cornwall

2014-08-0360 min

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.

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Episode 31: Summer Special

2014-08-1060 min

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

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Episode 32: Northern Ireland

2014-08-1760 min

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.

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Episode 33: Herefordshire

2014-08-2460 min

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.

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Episode 34: Kids Countryside

2014-08-2560 min

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

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Episode 35: Staffordshire

2014-08-3160 min

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

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Episode 36: Stourbridge

2014-09-0760 min

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.

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Episode 37: Norfolk

2014-09-1460 min

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.

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Episode 38: Devon

2014-09-2160 min

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.

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Episode 39: One Man and His Dog

2014-09-2860 min

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.

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Episode 40: Harvest

2014-10-0560 min

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.

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Episode 41: Music Compilation

2014-10-1260 min

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.

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Episode 42: Autumn Special

2014-10-1960 min

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

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Episode 43: Northumberland

2014-10-2660 min

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

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Episode 44: Isle of Wight

2014-11-0260 min

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.

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Episode 45: World War One Special

2014-11-0960 min

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

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Episode 46: Crafts of the Countryside

2014-11-1660 min

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

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Episode 47: Berkshire

2014-11-2360 min

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.

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Episode 48: Lancashire

2014-11-3060 min

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

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Episode 49: East Sussex

2014-12-0760 min

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.

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Episode 50: Clwydian Range

2014-12-1460 min

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.

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Episode 51: Christmas Special

2014-12-2160 min

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

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Episode 52: Celebrations Compilation

2014-12-2860 min

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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