NaN/100 votes#1 - Rural Heritage
Season 36 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2023
John Craven is at the National Hedgelaying Championships as competitors go chainsaw to chainsaw, billhook to billhook in a bid to claim the coveted title.
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#2 - Shooting Estate
Season 36 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2023
Charlotte explores the 12,500-acre Rhug Estate in north Wales to see what it means to be a traditional shooting estate in the modern world, and looks at how it contributes to local business.
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#3 - Audley End House
Season 36 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2023
John Craven and Charlotte Smith visit one of the finest Jacobean houses in the UK, where they roll up their sleeves and muck in with winter cleaning and maintenance.
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#4 - Flash: The UK’s Highest Village in Winter
Season 36 Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2023
Anita Rani and Joe Crowley are in Flash, the UK’s highest village, to hear about the Big Freeze of 1962/63, one of the coldest winters on record, when even the sea froze over.
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#5 - Breaking into Farming
Season 36 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2023
Charlotte Smith and Steve Brown are visiting first-time farmers around the country to discover the trials and tribulations of trying to break into the industry.
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#6 - Underground Britain
Season 36 Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/2023
Sean Fletcher visits Cornwall to unearth the legacy of the county’s renowned tin and copper mining industries. Tom Heap finds out if mining Cornish lithium could herald a new gold rush.
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#7 - Small Fishing Village
Season 36 Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2023
Joe Crowley and Steve Brown are on the North Yorkshire coast in the beautiful village of Staithes to find out how the traditional fishing community is adapting for the future.
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#8 - Livestock Market
Season 36 Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2023
Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith visit Bakewell Livestock Market in Derbyshire, and Joe Crowley finds out about opposition to a proposed new multibillion-pound power grid.
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#9 - Going to Extremes
Season 36 Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2023
On the seventieth anniversary of the first summit of Mount Everest, Ellie Harrison is put through her paces at a materials research facility, including a cold chamber that reaches -40 Celsius.
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#10 - Vanishing Villages
Season 36 Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2023
John Craven and Matt Baker are on the east coast of England to find out how storms are devouring the coastline, and Adrian Chiles rolls up his sleeves to find out what it takes to be a hill farmer.
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#11 - Dartmoor
Season 36 Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/2023
Charlotte Smith discovers how political parties are responding to the recent wild camping ruling on Dartmoor. Adam Henson visits a rehab centre for horses.
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#12 - Troubled Waters
Season 36 Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/2023
Like so many of our waterways, the River Wye is being suffocated by pollution. Matt Baker and Anita Rani meet the volunteers trying to save this spectacular river.
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#13 - Aberystwyth
Season 36 Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2023
In Aberystwyth, Joe Crowley meets scientists behind some of the biggest new developments in farming and food security. And why is London's salad bowl in the Lea Valley on the brink of collapse?
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#14 - Hidden Histories of Sherwood Forest
Season 36 Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/2023
Margherita Taylor and Joe Crowley visit Sherwood Forest to discover how much more there is to this nature reserve and site of special scientific interest than Robin Hood.
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#15 - Compilation (9th April 2023)
Season 36 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/2023
Sean Fletcher is in Hendy, south Wales, visiting Europe’s most productive leech farm, which supplies 70 per cent of medicinal leeches worldwide.
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#16 - Wild Britain
Season 36 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2023
Picking up the baton from Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles, Countryfile launches 'Wild Britain', an ambitious initiative to galvanize us all to help and save our wildlife.
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#17 - Dumfries House
Season 36 Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/2023
Charlotte Smith and Hamza Yassin travel to Dumfries House, a showcase for the King's passion for rural life.
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#18 - Lambing Special
Season 36 Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2023
It's lambing season, and Charlotte Smith visits the Outer Hebrides to meet teenage farmer Archie, while Paralympian Sammi Kinghorn is back home lambing on her family farm in the Scottish Borders.
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#19 - A Rural Welcome Revisit
Season 36 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2023
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are back in the New Forest in Hampshire to catch up with the community and families who have come together to help Ukrainian refugees.
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#20 - Mental Health Awareness
Season 36 Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/2023
Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, the team explores initiatives in different parts of the UK that are helping people to improve their mental wellbeing.
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#21 - Cumbrian Shepherdess - Spring
Season 36 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2023
Sammi Kinghorn catches up with a 16-year-old farmer from Cumbria. Adam Henson looks into the dangers facing sheep and lambs from an increase in dog attacks this year.
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#22 - Upper Teesdale
Season 36 Episode 22 - Aired 5/28/2023
Charlotte and Matt travel to Upper Teesdale to meet a remarkable woman who has made it her life’s work to look after one of the most important botanical sites in the UK.
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#23 - Lower Hampen Farm
Season 36 Episode 23 - Aired 6/4/2023
Charlotte Smith and Matt Baker are at Lower Hampen Farm in the Cotswolds to meet Lydia and Clive Handy, who have turned back the clock to adopt a more traditional approach to farming.
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#24 - Argyll Hope Spot
Season 36 Episode 24 - Aired 6/11/2023
There are 151 hope spots around the world – areas that have been identified as critical to the health of the oceans. Hamza Yassin visits the only one in the UK – the Argyll Coast and Islands.
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#25 - Porthcawl Surf and Sand
Season 36 Episode 25 - Aired 6/18/2023
John Craven meets the UK's first female European surfing champion in Porthcawl, and he joins Swansea's Surfers Against Sewage to help clean up the local beach.
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Season 36 Ratings Summary
"Rural Heritage" is the best rated episode of "Countryfile" season 36. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/2023. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Shooting Estate".