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Countryfile is deep in the heart of rural England, exploring the chalk-lands of the South Downs.

Centuries ago this countryside, with its green fields and wooded hedges, gladdened the heart of Jane Austen, and as Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison discover, there is still plenty around today that the great novelist would recognise. Ellie walks in Jane Austen's footsteps, and discovers how Austen reflected country life in her novels when she visits Jane's home in the village of Chawton.

Matt is at Selborne, where he finds out how the Hampshire landscape inspired an earlier writer, Gilbert White. One of Britain's best-loved naturalists, White's observations of the county's flora and fauna inspired Darwin and are still being read today.

Also in the programme, Tom Heap investigates just what 'five a day' means when it comes to healthy living. There can't be many people in Britain today who haven't heard of the five-a-day message. But is the campaign to get us all to eat more fruit and veg really making us healthier?

Meanwhile, Adam Henson leaves the farm and travels north in search of scientific ways to make pig rearing more welfare-friendly.