The Dales Season 2

Ade begins his summer with a journey over the Dales in a helicopter. He stops at Ravenseat Farm where sheep farmers Clive and Amanda Owen live along with their five young children. He later spends the night in the Owens’s newly refurbished Shepherd’s Hut where Amanda uses the river as a place to cool the drinks.

This shows features the centenary celebration dinner at The Boar’s Head at Ripley Castle. Ade manages to fulfil a life long dream when he gets to ride on the footplate of a steam train on the Settle to Carlisle railway line.

Estate agent Brian Carlisle holds an open day at the Catrigg Force waterfall near Ribblesdale, hoping to attract potential buyers to the landmark. Plus, potholing enthusiasts Jude Onions and Johnny Latimer get married at Ingleborough cave, and Adrian Edmondson meets 10-year-old Daisy Watkiss, who hosts a weekly show on community station Drystone Radio.

Adrian Edmondson visits Middleham to meet racehorse trainer Simon West, who hopes to turn around the fortunes of the local stables. The presenter also catches up with farmers Carol and Phillip Mellin, who have embarked on a new venture breeding and training sheepdogs, while villagers in Swaledale hold a remembrance service to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Hudswell air disaster.

Adrian Edmondson visits Kirkby Malham to meet members of the Wildman family, who have a rich farming heritage in the area. Father Chris is a fifth-generation butcher who plans to build his own charcuterie on the farm. The presenter also heads to Nidderdale, where sheep farmer Suzanne Benson reveals all about her new business of llama-trekking.

Adrian Edmondson rejoins racing trainer Simon West as he breaks in a new horse from Ireland, but does the animal have the makings of a racehorse? Swaledale shepherdess Amanda Owen is expecting her sixth child, but her home is so remote that visiting the midwife means a 50-mile round-trip. Back at the farm disaster strikes, putting Clive and Amanda's hay crop at risk. Ade spends an evening with the Buckden Singers and gets more than he bargained for when conductor Anne Vetch hands him the baton.

Adrian Edmondson visits Kilnsey Show in Upper Wharfedale, where farmer Carol Mellin and her dog Maisie are taking part in the sheep dog trials. He also catches up with teenage shepherd William Wildman, who is competing with his sheep. At Masham Sheep Fair, Carol and her son Philip show their ducks and geese. Ade drops in on artist Helen Peyton, who gives him a lesson in drawing a Dales landscape, and follows her to Kilnsey, where she is judging the local photography exhibition.

Adrian Edmondson visits clothes designer Izzy Lane, who is searching for traditional Dales knitters to help her complete her collection. He also catches up with farming family the Wildmans, and meets the most nervous man in Wensleydale, Paul Sidebottom, who is planning a surprise marriage proposal to his girlfriend Pippa.

Adrian Edmondson explores the Dales from below as he joins caving expert Dave Gallivan underground near Horton-in-Ribblesdale. Ethical entrepreneur Izzy Lane takes on a new venture - she plans to rescue battery hens and hopes to use their eggs in a new food brand. How will she and her farming friend Ernest Ayre get on as the new feathery flock arrive in Richmond? During a break from trying to sell a Dales waterfall, estate agent Brian Carlisle tackles another watery challenge - training for an open water swim at Semerwater.

Adrian Edmondson meets racehorse trainer Simon West, the owner of Castle Stables, who talks about the challenges a small yard faces. Meanwhile, near Keighley, farmer Carol Mellin is getting ready to take part in the prestigious World Sheep Dog Trials in Cumbria, at which she will be representing England. Ade also meets Neil and Jane McNair, who turned their backs on London to buy and restore a disused watermill in the village of Banbridge in Wensleydale. Will their neighbours be pleased with the changes they have made to the mill and the surrounding area?

Adrian Edmondson meets Dave Tait from the Otley and Yorkshire Dales Dry Stone Walling team and is shown how to repair a part of one of the 5,000 miles of dry stone walls in the Dales. At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, the estate's wedding co-ordinator Liz Bielby is busy preparing for her own marriage to fiance Andrew at St Mary's Church. In Skipton, Margaret Wooler opens her stunning garden to the public to raise money for the National Garden Scheme.

Adrian Edmondson presents the observational documentary series about a summer in the Yorkshire Dales. At Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, the Owen family are preparing for youngest son Miles's first day at school. Meanwhile, Dales estate agent Brian Carlisle takes on another role as auctioneer and, as summer draws to an end, vicar Anne Chapman holds a harvest festival for her parishioners.