No image available
Episode 1: My Countryside Compilation
2017-01-0160 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.
Season guide
Countryfile Season 30 — Episodes and Where to Watch
53 episodes · first aired 2017-01-01
TMDB does not provide a season overview.
Episode guide
No image available
Episode 2: Shropshire
2017-01-0860 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.
No image available
Episode 3: Carmarthenshire
2017-01-1560 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.
No image available
Episode 4: Jurassic Coast
2017-01-2260 min
Countryfile is on the Jurassic Coast, where Matt Baker meets the man who's been digging for fossils for more than thirty years.
No image available
Episode 5: Peak District
2017-01-2960 min
Countryfile is exploring the Peak District. Matt Baker joins the team on a mission to restore the scarred moorland.
No image available
Episode 6: Feathered Friends
2017-02-0560 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.
No image available
Episode 7: Winter Special
2017-02-1260 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.
No image available
Episode 8: Somerset
2017-02-1960 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.
No image available
Episode 9: Isle of Man
2017-02-2660 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.
No image available
Episode 10: South Downs
2017-03-0560 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.
No image available
Episode 11: Farming Now and Then
2017-03-1260 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.
No image available
Episode 12: Hoo Peninsula
2017-03-1960 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.
No image available
Episode 13: Denbighshire
2017-03-2660 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.
No image available
Episode 14: Forests
2017-04-0260 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.
No image available
Episode 15: Holderness
2017-04-0960 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.
No image available
Episode 16: Lancashire
2017-04-1660 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.
No image available
Episode 17: County Durham
2017-04-2360 min
Countryfile is in County Durham, and Matt is on his old home turf, showing how to make panackelty, a traditional north-eastern dish.
No image available
Episode 18: Warwickshire
2017-04-3060 min
For Hedgehog Awareness Week, Ellie Harrison meets three schoolgirls on a mission to keep the hedgehogs of Warwickshire safe from harm.
No image available
Episode 19: Tales of the Riverbank Compilation
2017-05-0760 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.
No image available
Episode 20: Suffolk
2017-05-1460 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.
No image available
Episode 21: Lanarkshire
2017-05-2160 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.
No image available
Episode 22: Spring Special
2017-05-2860 min
In a spring special edition of the programme Countryfile goes in search of the secret and often overlooked wonders of the season.
No image available
Episode 23: Essex
2017-06-0460 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.
Episode 24: Northern Ireland
2017-06-1160 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.
Episode 25: Wye: Hay Festival
2017-06-1860 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.
Episode 26: Working Animals Compilation
2017-06-2560 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.
Episode 27: Worcestershire
2017-07-0260 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.
Episode 28: Northants
2017-07-0960 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.
Episode 29: Fife
2017-07-1660 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.
Episode 30: Wiltshire
2017-07-2360 min
Anita meets the contestants of the International Young Beekeepers competition at Marlborough College and visits the River Kennet.
Episode 31: Cities
2017-07-3060 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.
Episode 32: Roots and Shoots
2017-08-0660 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.
Episode 33: Dartmoor
2017-08-1360 min
Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
Episode 34: Summer Special
2017-08-2060 min
Anita Rani explores the Artisan Trail in Dartmoor, a newly created route that links some of the area's best artists and craftspeople.
Episode 35: Llyn Peninsula
2017-08-2760 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.
Episode 36: Harvest
2017-09-0360 min
Countryfile looks at how food is harvested, from large-scale crops for supermarket shelves to smaller hand-picked harvests for local markets.
Episode 37: Rame Peninsula
2017-09-1060 min
Ellie Harrison visits Mount Edgcumbe on Cornwall's Rame Peninsula, where the UK's first ever native dark honeybee reserve has just opened.
Episode 38: Protected Countryside
2017-09-1760 min
To mark it becoming a Unesco World Heritage Site, Ellie explores what makes the Lake District an area of international cultural significance.
Episode 39: One Man and His Dog 2017
2017-09-2460 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.
Episode 40: South Yorkshire
2017-10-0160 min
Ellie is in South Yorkshire, right on the border of the Peak District, following in the footsteps of the Clarion Ramblers.
Episode 41: Dumfries House
2017-10-0860 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.
Episode 42: Nature Strikes Back
2017-10-1560 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.
Episode 43: Cornish Heartlands
2017-10-2260 min
John and Margherita are in Cornwall, where John attends a food festival with a difference. Plus a profile of Cornish artist David Hosking.
Episode 44: Ramble for Children in Need
2017-10-2960 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.
Episode 45: Autumn Special
2017-11-0560 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.
Episode 46: Remembrance
2017-11-1260 min
Ellie Harrison finds out about the so-called 'Idle' women of the canals, who played a vital role in the Second World War.
Episode 47: Hertfordshire
2017-11-1960 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.
Episode 48: Cairngorms
2017-11-2660 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.
Episode 49: Cleveland Way
2017-12-0360 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.
Episode 50: The Brecks
2017-12-1060 min
Ellie Harrison finds out about a conservation effort to save two species from extinction in Breckland, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border.
Episode 51: My Countryside Compilation
2017-12-1760 min
Ellie Harrison sees her home county of Gloucestershire as she has never seen it before. And Nina Wadia explores the Highlands.
Episode 52: Christmas Special
2017-12-2460 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.
Episode 53: New Zealand Compilation
2017-12-3160 min
In New Zealand, Adam Henson meets some old friends, helps with a cattle muster and witnesses sheep farming on a breathtaking scale.
Series, season and episode metadata is supplied by TMDB. No season-specific provider claim is made on this page.