Countryfile — The River Leven through Time takes Anita Rani and Joe Crowley along one of Fife’s most historically significant waterways, tracing how the River Leven shaped the communities that grew beside it and how those same communities are now reshaping their relationship with it. This is a river with centuries of industrial muscle behind it, and this episode sets out to understand what that legacy left behind — and what it might still offer. Anita Rani joins archaeologists on a major new excavation along the riverbank, unearthing the physical evidence of the Leven’s working past. The dig targets layers