Countrywise - Season 1

Countrywise - Season 1

Season 1

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DatesMar 12, 2009 - Nov 12, 2009
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Episodes

Introduction
Season 1Episode 130 min

Introduction

"The countryside is my home. I love the landscape, and share with the people who live and work there, the endless fascination about what makes it tick. Countrywise is going to take me into every corner of rural Britain. Who could turn down a job like that?" This spring a new series for ITV1 showcases the fabric of Britain's rural and coastal life. Countrywise dedicates 36 episodes to the riches which lie beyond Britain’s major cities. It is presented by journalist turned farmer and sailor Paul Heiney. Countrywise highlights exactly what makes our countryside tick. Combining items presented by Paul with features drawn from ITV’s regions, the programme takes in the breadth of Britain's countryside, from its crumbliest coastline and happiest valley, to its secret tunnels, rescued gardens and haunted hills. On his travels around rural Britain, Paul Heiney visits the only place in the UK to grow tea, learns the inside story of Dover's white cliffs, and discovers the country's most bizarre beach huts. In these credit-crunch times, a growing number are now turning their backs on foreign breaks and Countrywise provides an invaluable reminder of what's here on our doorstep. Through the stories of the guardians for our landscape, wildlife and traditions, Paul leaves no stone unturned in his quest to uncover the secrets of Britain’s beautiful countryside. (24 episodes in summer + 12 episodes in autumn.)
Mar 12, 2009
Surrey
Season 1Episode 230 min

Surrey

Paul Heiney explores Britain's coast and country, and meets the people that make it special. Today, he visits one of Britain's first farm shops which is in Surrey and celebrates its thirtieth birthday with an annual marmalade-making extravaganza. He takes time to try his hand at Victorian farming, and meets some of the champions who keep country traditions alive.
Mar 19, 2009
The Birthplace of Industry
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Birthplace of Industry

Today, Paul visits "The Birthplace of Industry" where a single event changed the British countryside forever. Paul discovers more about Victorian farming methods.
Mar 26, 2009
Idyllic Hours
Season 1Episode 430 min

Idyllic Hours

Paul Heiney presents a series with memorable scenes drawn from the best of the ITV regions. Paul explores Britain's coast and country, and meets the people that make it special. Today, Paul joins anglers at an idyllic spot for the start of the fly-fishing season, and learns more about Victorian farming methods.
Apr 2, 2009
St Georges Day
Season 1Episode 530 min

St Georges Day

Paul Heiney celebrates St George's Day on the hill where legend says the dragon was slain. He also explores Britain's oldest footpath, finds out about Victorian farming methods and introduces people who keep country traditions alive
Apr 9, 2009
Some Things Worth Keeping
Season 1Episode 630 min

Some Things Worth Keeping

Paul Heiney explores Britain's countryside, and finds memorable scenes from the ITV regions. Today, Paul meets trainee farmers, farriers and blacksmiths who are learning the old skills for a new generation. Paul also finds out how the Victorians farmed, and introduces another country champion keeping tradition alive.
Apr 16, 2009
Kent
Season 1Episode 730 min

Kent

Today we find out how an historic Kent dockyard changed the landscape forever as whole forests were felled for the timber to build warships such as the Victory. We also learns more about Victorian farming traditions, and are introduced toanother country champion who is working to keep traditions alive.
Apr 23, 2009
The Malvern Hills
Season 1Episode 830 min

The Malvern Hills

This week, we visit the Malvern Hills, eight hundred million years in the making and officially one of the best places in Britain to walk a dog. Paul also helps to shear sheep the Victorian way, and Selina Scott visits the most remote railway station in the country.
Apr 30, 2009
Cornwell
Season 1Episode 930 min

Cornwell

Today's adventure starts in Cornwall where Paul meets the crew of the Penzance lifeboat that is celebrating 150 years of service. In Newquay, he visits the 'House in the Sea' and meets a young surfing champion. Meanwhile, Rachel de Thame discovers the only place in Britain that grows tea.
May 7, 2009
Northumberland
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Northumberland

Today they are in Northumberland, where Paul visits a man-made lake named as the most tranquil spot in the country. Meanwhile Rachel tours the grounds of Alnwick Castle - the Windsor of the North - and discovers that the garden holds a deadly secret.
May 14, 2009
The Lake District
Season 1Episode 1130 min

The Lake District

May 21, 2009
Constable Country
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Constable Country

Today we are in Constable country, celebrating the anniversary of the birth of one of Britain's best-loved landscape painters. We also find out about ambitious plans to create the UK's biggest wetland nature reserve AND Bettany Hughes investigates the landmark feat of engineering which stops this area disappearing under the sea.
May 28, 2009
London
Season 1Episode 1330 min

London

Paul Heiney and the team explore the countryside in and around London. Paul meets the ranger who looks after Richmond Park's 600 deer, and talks to the man who mows the grass with the capital's last working shire horses. Rachel de Thame visits a rooftop garden in Kensington, and a wealth of birdlife is discovered in a city centre cemetery
Jun 4, 2009
Elan Valley
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Elan Valley

Paul Heiney and the team explore the dams and reservoirs of the Elan Valley in Wales, test site for Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb ahead of the Dam Buster raids in World War Two. Kate McIntyre meets a sheep farmer who helped rescue Britain's red kite population and there is a visit to a model village created to replace homes in the flooded valley
Jun 11, 2009
Cotswolds
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Cotswolds

Paul Heiney and the team are in the Cotswolds to visit a village that topped a poll of the best places to live in the UK. Rachel de Thame discovers the secret garden belonging to Blenheim Palace, and Bettany Hughes explores an unfinished Gothic mansion that has never been inhabited
Jun 18, 2009
Cotswolds
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Cotswolds

Jun 25, 2009
Dover
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Dover

In a programme first show in 2009, the team heads to Dover for a double anniversary. Paul Heiney marks the centenary of the first cross-Channel flight and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first hovercraft crossing to France. Bettany Hughes visits the White Cliffs, where she explores secret tunnels that have never been opened to the public
Jul 2, 2009
North of Scotland
Season 1Episode 1830 min

North of Scotland

Paul Heiney visits the north of Scotland and takes a trip on steam train the Jacobite, which follows a route voted the most beautiful rail journey in the world by a travel magazine. Historian Bettany Hughes recounts the tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a local fisherman tells of the day he met a monster in a loch
Jul 9, 2009
Isle of Wight
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Isle of Wight

The team travels to the Isle of Wight on the eve of the world-famous regatta at Cowes. Paul Heiney joins an Olympic champion at the helm of a 60ft ocean racer, Kate McIntyre meets a fossil hunter searching for new species of dinosaur and Rachel de Thame visits the botanic gardens at Ventnor
Jul 16, 2009
Yorkshire and Lancashire
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Yorkshire and Lancashire

One-hour special in which Paul Heiney journeys through Yorkshire and Lancashire, from Britain's first seaside resort in Scarborough to the vast natural wilderness of Morecambe Bay, looking at whether an age-old rivalry still exists between the two neighbouring regions
Jul 23, 2009
Suffolk
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Suffolk

Paul Heiney visits the Suffolk village of Walberswick, where he witnesses the staging of the annual British Open Crabbing Championship. He also calls at a Victorian farm in Norfolk to try his hand at hay-making and meets people who are keeping rural traditions alive
Jul 30, 2009
Birmingham
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Birmingham

Paul Heiney visits Birmingham to celebrate National Allotments Week, and gathers in the harvest on the Victorian farm in Norfolk. Plus, reports on sea kayaking around the Isle of Man and a bugle band competition in Cornwall
Aug 6, 2009
Rutland Water
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Rutland Water

Paul Heiney watches ospreys when he travels to Rutland Water for the British Bird Fair. He also joins in with the south London lavender harvest and takes a trip on a steam-driven barge on a canal in the Midlands
Aug 13, 2009
Norfolk Broads
Season 1Episode 2430 min

Norfolk Broads

Paul Heiney visits the Norfolk Broads, where he takes a trip on a traditional wherry trading barge. Plus, reports on cowboys in the West Country and a poacher-turned-water bailiff in Hampshire
Aug 20, 2009
Whitby in North Yorkshire
Season 1Episode 2530 min

Whitby in North Yorkshire

Aug 27, 2009
North York Moors
Season 1Episode 2630 min

North York Moors

Paul Heiney visits the North York Moors and meets George Thompson, the 2008 Gamekeeper of the Year. Plus, reports on the campaigners who saved an ancient forest from developers, and the cattle breeders trying to save the Leicestershire Longhorn from extinction
Sep 3, 2009
Exmouth in Devon
Season 1Episode 2730 min

Exmouth in Devon

Paul Heiney visits Exmouth in Devon to report on the national Beachwatch clean-up. Plus, the sanctuary for wolves deep in a Shropshire forest and the work of a group of Northamptonshire farmers
Sep 10, 2009
Gloucestershire
Season 1Episode 2830 min

Gloucestershire

Paul Heiney is in Gloucestershire to celebrate British Cheese Week, visiting the home of Stinking Bishop and an award-winning vineyard. Plus, a spectacular sailing regatta in Wales and an environmentally friendly quarry in Northumberland
Sep 17, 2009
Isles of Scilly
Season 1Episode 2930 min

Isles of Scilly

Paul Heiney visits the Isles of Scilly to celebrate the 25th anniversary of an airlink vital to the region's flower industry. Plus, a report from Teesdale at England's biggest upland nature reserve, and the tricks of the blacksmith's trade are revealed
Sep 24, 2009
Herefordshire
Season 1Episode 3030 min

Herefordshire

Paul Heiney visits Herefordshire, the largest apple-growing county in Britain, for the start of the harvest. He hears how cider-making has developed from its farmhouse roots and discovers that eating a cider apple can be a bitter-sweet experience. Plus, a report on a ranger who knows every ancient tree in Sherwood Forest
Oct 1, 2009
Dorset's Jurassic Coast
Season 1Episode 3130 min

Dorset's Jurassic Coast

Paul Heiney visits Dorset's Jurassic Coast at the start of the fossil-hunting season. Plus, reports on a swan rescue centre in Yorkshire, steam ploughing on the Victorian farm, and a car that floats
Oct 8, 2009
Essex
Season 1Episode 3230 min

Essex

Paul Heiney tastes fruits including medlar and quince on a visit to a centuries-old Essex farm and jam factory. Plus reports on the West Somerset Steam Railway and an organic farming pioneer from Wiltshire
Oct 15, 2009
Witley Court in Worcestershire
Season 1Episode 3330 min

Witley Court in Worcestershire

Paul Heiney visits Witley Court in Worcestershire - once one of the great stately homes of England, but destroyed by fire more than 70 years ago. Plus, Selina Scott takes a trip down the Thames in a converted electric bath chair and a falcon is put to work on the Victorian farm
Oct 22, 2009
Glastonbury Tor in Somerset
Season 1Episode 3430 min

Glastonbury Tor in Somerset

Paul Heiney meets a farmer who breeds alpacas on the slopes of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, and tries his hand at dowsing - looking for the magical lines of energy that some people believe run from the hill. Plus, a report on a Fenland farmer-turned-poet and a demonstration of Victorian carpentry skills
Oct 29, 2009
Episode 35
Season 1Episode 3530 min

Episode 35

Nov 5, 2009
Episode 36
Season 1Episode 3630 min

Episode 36

Nov 12, 2009

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