Farming and Country Life

Countryfile – The National Forest – 10 Million Trees marks one of the most significant environmental milestones in recent British history, a moment that speaks volumes about what patient, determined effort can achieve in the landscape of the modern countryside.

Countryfile – Easter – The Sights and Sounds of Spring arrives at a moment when the British countryside is undergoing one of its most dramatic seasonal transformations, and this Easter special captures that shift with rare precision.

Countryfile – St Michael’s Mount – Some storms leave marks that last for generations. When Storm Goretti tore through Cornwall, it didn’t just bring wind and rain. It dismantled something precious.

Countryfile – Dusk Til Dawn steps into the shadows for one of its most atmospheric episodes yet. Dusk Til Dawn takes viewers deep into the North York Moors, a landscape transformed when daylight fades.

There are few moments in agricultural life quite like lambing season. For sheep farmers across Britain, it arrives like a tide — unstoppable, urgent, and utterly transforming. Days blur into nights.

The fields turn amber and rust, the air sharpens, and across the flatlands of eastern England, a very particular harvest is in full swing. This is the sugar beet harvest — and this week on Countryfile, Charlotte Smith and Vick Hope head east to tell its story.

There is something magical about the start of a new season. The air feels different. The water moves differently. And along the ancient banks of the River Tweed, something extraordinary stirs.

Countryfile – Hamza’s Highlands – Flapper Skate takes viewers into one of the most dramatic and least-visited stretches of Scottish coastline, where the cold, dark waters of the west coast conceal a creature so ancient, so vast, and so quietly imperilled that most people have never heard of it.

Three decades have passed since one of Britain’s most devastating environmental disasters unfolded along the pristine coastline of Pembrokeshire.