Countryfile is produced by the BBC. It aims to highlight for the public what is going on in the British countryside in terms of the environment and rural practices. Each week showcases different parts of the UK and the activities that take place there in our countryside, many of which are current and also newsworthy. It has features on the impact of various activities on our green spaces, our wildlife, our food and our lifestyles, and presents ideas of how people can get involved with both wildlife and domestic farm animals. There is a magazine to support the show.
Release / Airing: 01/07/1988
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Abinger Alpacas >
November the 8th’s Countryfile showed how these Suffolk farmers have successfully built up a 120 breeding herd of Alpacas. An amusing aspect of this feature was how curious the Alpacas’ were to appear on the television as they kept peering into the camera! This feature also showed the beauty of the Suffolk landscape and how Alpacas’ can allegedly help protect chickens from fox predation.
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Epping Forest >
This feature of the programme focused on the various things people can do in the woods to get back to nature, particularly if there are children involved, such as making dens, outdoor pursuits and discovering flora and fauna.
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Hollesley Bay Colony Stud >
A feature in the November 8th’s Countryfile highlighted the importance of the Suffolk Punch horses to East Anglia’s heritage, and how they continue to play that role within Suffolk’s arable landscape today.
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Ickworth House, Park and Garden >
In the summer of 1940 a different fight was fought on the ground at Ickworth... that of growing sufficient food now that importing produce from overseas had become impossible due to the onslaught of WWII. The Countryfile team took a step back in time from November 2009 to look at the tole Ickworth had played in the 'Dig for Victory' campaign where 40 per cent of the estate had been put under arable production for the war effort. This giant allotment became the hub of a successful local self-sufficiency campaign. The feature showed how Ickworth has continued this tradition by interviewing young children from a local school who visit the garden to learn about growing vegetables.
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Imperial War Museum Duxford >
In the episode which aired on 14 August 2010, Countryfile featured the Imperial War Museum at Duxford ahead of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Britain. Jules Hudson is taken to the skies in a Tiger Moth and learns just how difficult it was to fly these planes whilst flying over the Cambridgeshire countryside.
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Lavenham Airfield >
Ahead of the 2009 Remembrance Day in early November, the Countryfile team went on location to what was formerly Lavenham Airfield, home to the US Army Air Force 487th Bombardment Group. During WWII B17’s took off from this airfield and one local man recalled how the children used to count the aircraft back following bombing raids. The land owner has strived to keep the airfield alive and restored the Control Tower.
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RAF Lakenheath >
In October 2009, the Countryfile visited this operational US airbase and reflected on what life was like for the men and women stationed there during WWII. It was from here and other US and RAF airbases across the East of England that the combined allied campaign was fought which helped turn the tide of WWII in favour of allied forces.
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Wicken Fen >
Starting at Wicken Fen, Ben Fogle tries his hand at stilt-walking over the boggy marsh land, wild swims in a creek near Upware and ends his journey punting on the river Cam in Cambridge. Plus, Stephen Fry talks about his passion for the Fenlands.
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