Step into the Scottish countryside with Nick Nairn and the team. This week they discover how one Ayrshire estate has been transformed into an outdoors playground, and a look at why steading conversions are the big new trend in Scottish housing. Also includes the Landward weather forecast for the week ahead.

Episode 17: Ayrshire

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Landward returns for a new series hosted by Nick Nairn. Throughout the series Nick and a team of reporters will search out the best Scottish produce and tackle the burning issues affecting those who live, work and play in the Scottish countryside.

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Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn and a team of reporters search out the best Scottish produce and tackle the burning issues affecting those who live, work and play in the Scottish countryside.

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Scotland's farming and countryside programme.

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Nick Nairn and the team continue to investigate the issues affecting those who live work and play in the Scottish countryside.

Episode 6

Nick Nairn and the team continue their weekly quest to get into the heart of the Countryside to find out what makes rural Scotland tick.

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Episode 11: Borders Food/Red Kites

Nick Nairn and the team bring you a breath of fresh air from the Scottish countryside. This week plans to restore historic homes have hit the buffers, the prickly problems facing hedgehogs, and a tasty morsel from the borders.

Episode 12: Rowallan; Borders Food

Nick Nairn and the team continue their weekly quest to get into the heart of the Countryside to find out what makes rural Scotland tick. Sarah discovers why Aspen trees face a lonely future if they can't spice up their love lives, Nick meets a specialist haggis-maker in the borders, and Euan finds out how a charity on Deeside rescues horses from cruelty and neglect, and offers them a second chance at life.

Episode 13: Borders Food and Larsen Traps

Episode 14

Nick Nairn and the team return for a new series of the weekly magazine featuring the people and places that make Scotland's countryside tick. Includes a five-day weather forecast.

Episode 15

Nick Nairn and the team present the weekly magazine featuring the people and places that make Scotland's countryside tick. Includes a five-day weather forecast.

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Landward does Top Gear as Euan McIlwraith test drives the country's first Hydrogen powered car. Ken Rundle joins the pea harvesters as they race against the clock to get the peas from field to freezer in under 150 minutes. Plus, a five-day weather forecast for outdoor workers.

Episode 19

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn investigates the claims of farmers selling 'Carbon neutral' beef. In Shetland, changing sea temperatures have created a new opportunity for the island's fishermen. The team meet the unsung heroines of the second world war effort- the Women's Land Army. Plus, a full five-day weather forecast.

Episode 20

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn and the team travel throughout Scotland to find out about the people, places and pastimes that make the countryside tick.

Episode 21

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn meets the Gairloch landowner who has spent a ten-year labour of love planting millions of trees.

Episode 22

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn climbs Ben Nevis and gets some tips on winter hill-walking. Sarah Mack investigates the mysterious case of the collapsing gundogs. Includes a five-day weather forecast for outdoor enthusiasts.

Episode 23

Nick Nairn presents Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick goes fishing for prawns in the Clyde and meets a graduate of the Responsible Fishing scheme. Sarah Mack meets some fossil hunters. Plus, a five day weather forecast.

Episode 24

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Landward does Top Gear as Euan McIlwraith test drives the UK's first road-legal Hydrogen car in Shetland and Ken Rundle takes a nostalgic look at vintage farm machinery. Plus a five-day weather forecast.

Episode 25

Scotland's farming and countryside programme, including the weather for the week ahead. Nick Nairn and the team travel across Scotland feeling the festive spirit. Sarah Mack joins the Nairn bell-ringers, and there's a review of the Landward year.

Christmas Special

Scotland's farming and countryside programme, including the weather for the week ahead. Nick Nairn goes on the Fife food diet. Ken Rundle joins a pig farmers' demonstration. Sarah goes Moray Firth Dolphin spotting.

Episode 27

Stories from Scotland's countryside. Nick continues the Fife Food Diet. Euan McIlwraith looks at raptor poisoning. Ken Rundle takes a farm break. Plus a five day weather forecast.

Episode 28

Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn profiles more great food from Fife, Ken Rundle looks at a free-range approach to dairy farming and Euan McIlwraith reports on efforts to improve the road safety of young drivers. Plus the weather forecast for the week.

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Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Nick Nairn cooks up a meal based on the Fife food diet and Sarah Mack investigates the continued importance to community life of the village hall. Plus the weather forecast for the week ahead.

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Landward is a long-running Scottish television programme focusing on agricultural and rural issues, produced and broadcast by BBC Scotland.

Episode 17: Ayrshire

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