SERIES INFO Genre: Documentary Special Interest Travel Stars: John Craven, Adam Henson, Matt Baker, Tom Heap, Julia Bradbury, Ellie Harrison, Helen Skelton Series Plot: Countryfile is a British Sunday-morning television programme by the BBC which first aired in 1988 and reports on rural and environmental issues within the United Kingdom. It is presented primarily by John Craven, with reports from a pool of presenters. The issues which it addresses are generally those within the rural public consciousness of the UK, such as animal-culling, fox hunting, organic farming, EU agricultural policy, pollution, and open access land, and as such the nature of the programme is often highly political, sometimes airing debates between pressure groups. In recent years, the show has hardly featured farming issues, and concentrates on rural arts and sports, using recorded segments which are often repeated several times over a period of a year or two.
EPISODE INFO Title: Anita's Mini Hub Airdate: 2020-06-21 Episode plot: Anita Rani is in Epping Forest to find out about its past, its wildlife and to meet some of the people who look after it. She discovers the art of cattle whispering when she meets the herd of Longhorns that helps to conserve the forest, and at dusk she goes on the trail of one of the UK’s rarest creatures. Wildlife filmmaker Hamza Yassin gets up close to one of our best-loved seabirds, the puffin, near his home on the west coast of Scotland, Gareth Wyn Jones gives us a glimpse into his life as a hill farmer in Wales, and down on his farm Adam Henson has a shearing dilemma to solve.