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Open Country Episodes

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    The Birds of Lindisfarne

    Helen Mark arrives on Lindisfarne, just as migrating birds flock to this Holy Island.

  2. Moseley Bog

    Felicity Evans visits the Birmingham bog that inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth.

  3. Geocaching in Salcey Forest

    Helen Mark joins geocachers from around the world discovering the Salcey Forest.

  4. Restoring Mountsorrel's Long Forgotten Railway

    One man's 'crazy' idea to restore a forgotten railway track in Leicestershire.

  5. Celebrating the Plum

    Helen Mark meets Alistair McGowan at a plum festival in the Vale of Evesham.

  6. Laurie Lee Land

    Helen Mark explores the new life springing up in Laurie Lee's beloved Slad Valley.

  7. Beer Quarry Caves

    Helen Mark visits Devon's Beer Quarry Caves which supplied Exeter cathedral with limestone

  8. Skiffs on Loch Broom

    Helen Mark is in Scotland to celebrate a recent boom in skiff-racing.

  9. The Ants of Longshaw Estate

    Helen Mark visits Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire to meet some very special ants.

  10. Crossing the Forth

    Open Country marks the naming of the new Forth crossing near Edinburgh.

  11. Salisbury Plain

    Felicity Evans visits the 'lost' village of Imber on Salisbury Plain.

  12. A World in a Woodland

    Helen Mark goes to a forest school in woodlands in Gloucestershire.

  13. Herriot Country

    Felicity Evans visits 'Herriot Country' in Yorkshire, made famous by vet James 'Alf' Wight

  14. Teifi Valley

    Felicity Evans visits the Teifi Valley in West Wales.

  15. A Tale of Three Piers

    Helen Mark promenades with Timothy West along the pier at Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare.

  16. The Minack Coast

    Felicity Evans explores human influence on the coast between the Lizard and Land's End.

  17. Cannock Chase

    Jules Hudson visits Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, to find out about its military past.

  18. Highland Ponies

    Helen Mark visits the working ponies of the Reay Forest estate in Sutherland.

  19. Fens of Cambridgeshire

    Felicity Evans visits Fenland Cambridgeshire in search of a Victorian vicar and naturalist

  20. Lyme Regis

    Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis' Undercliffs, a jungle created by 200 years of landslips.

  21. Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire

    Felicity Evans follows the Pembrokeshire footsteps of abstract artist Graham Sutherland.

  22. Springtime in Galloway

    Helen Mark is in Scottish Dumfries and Galloway for their 10th annual Wild Spring Festival

  23. Nuns of Yorkshire

    Helen Mark visits the sisters of the environmentally-friendly Stanbrook Abbey in Yorkshire

  24. Inishowen

    Helen Mark explores the landscape and shoreline of the Inishowen Peninsula.

  25. Johnsons Island

    Helen Mark discovers the little-known Johnsons Island and the community surrounding it.

  26. Memories of the Black Isle

    Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle where residents are collecting landscape memories.

  27. Marshes of Norfolk

    Felicity Evans finds that it's not just migrating birds that settle in Cley Marshes.

  28. Heritage at Risk - West Midlands

    Jules Hudson visits the West Midlands to ask why so much of our heritage is at risk.

  29. Hastings: The Shingle Fleet

    Helen Mark visits the ancient fishing community in Hastings, down on the shingle beach.

  30. Finding Neverland

    On the edge of JM Barrie's Kirriemuir, Helen Mark discovers the real Never Never Land.

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