Countryfile 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charlotte Smith discovers how political parties are responding to the recent wild camping ruling on Dartmoor. Adam Henson visits a rehab centre for horses.

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.

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?

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.

Sean Fletcher is in Hendy, south Wales, visiting Europe’s most productive leech farm, which supplies 70 per cent of medicinal leeches worldwide.

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.

Charlotte Smith and Hamza Yassin travel to Dumfries House, a showcase for the King's passion for rural life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A visit to Adam Henson's farm to celebrate 50 years of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, which was founded by Adam’s father Joe.

John Craven and Margherita Taylor are in Charsfield to celebrate one of the UK's most respected rural writers, Ronald Blythe, whose works were inspired by the Suffolk countryside.

The team visit Spalding, the historic hub of Britain's bulb and flower farming industry, to learn how a new generation of farmers is shaping the future of the UK's flower industry.

Joe Crowley joins a group of electric bike riders who have all recovered from heart attacks, and Sammi Kinghorn meets an organisation combating pollution in outdoor spaces.

In the aftermath of one of the biggest fires to ever engulf the UK countryside, Joe Crowley and John Craven explore the impact of increasing wildfires.

Charlotte Smith and Adam Henson discover what makes hay, one of our oldest crops, so special. And Tom Heap investigates how heatwaves are threatening the sea life that lives around our coastline.

Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith return to Dumfries House where the summer activities are in full swing.