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Matt And The Warwickshire Young Farmers
Matt Baker meets members of the Shipston-On-Stour Young Farmers’ Club to learn some essential farm skills in preparation for the Warwickshire County Rally. He visits Tom Keningale, a budding gamekeeper, to get some tips on chicken-plucking and then meets Annabel James as she herds sheep with her dog, Fly. Matt also takes on a tractor manoeuvring challenge at the final rally, while the young farmers show off some impressive welly-wanging. Finally Ellie and the boys go head-to-head with Matt and the girls’ team, in a close fought tug-of-war.
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Cycling In Stratford-Upon-Avon
Ellie Harrison visits England’s oldest bike maker, Pashley Cycles, to make her own 1930s-style racer. Elegantly clad in tweed, she takes her bike for a spin on Stratford-Upon-Avon’s country lanes with vintage bike enthusiasts, ‘The Guvnors’ Assembly’. Ellie then steps up a gear when she meets the founder of Stratford Cycling Club, John Oxtoby, and challenges him to a race on an ultra-modern aerodynamic bike.
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John On Shakespeare’s Farm
John Craven visits Mary Arden’s Farm, originally the home of Shakespeare’s grandparents, to trace the Stratford bard back to his rural roots. Here he meets Professor Stanley Wells to find out how Shakespeare captured the countryside in his plays. John also attempts to hand-shear a sheep at the Tudor farm, as he relives the joys and hardships of rural life in Shakespeare’s day.
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Tom Asks If Veal Is The Answer
A few months ago on Countryfile, John Craven, reported on efforts to stop newborn male dairy calves being shot at birth – because they cost too much to rear for beef. One solution was to use them for veal. Tom Heap finds out if progress has been made in creating a bigger market for veal in the UK. And he asks whether there are other ways of stopping the wasteful deaths of newborn dairy calves.
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Ellie Learns To Ride Side Saddle
Ellie Harrison takes to the saddle again to learn about the heyday of ladies’ side saddle riding. Local enthusiasts dress Ellie in a traditional habit and teach her the key techniques to riding ‘aside’. She explores the sport’s rich history and meets the expert riders and trainers keeping the it alive today. But will Ellie be able to master the unusual art of side saddle riding?
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Limestone Belties
Adam Henson visits farming friend Neil Heseltine who farms a herd of Belted Galloway cattle on a hillside in Malham, North Yorkshire. The cattle are used as part of a conservation project to graze the moorland and encourage more limestone loving wild flowers. At this time of the year the cattle need moving off the moorland to allow the wild plants to flower and set seed, so Adam and Neil herd them a mile downhill to the fresh pastures on the farmland below. Neil also keeps a selection of breeding bulls that Adam is keen to look at. He’s been on the hunt for a new Belted Galloway stock bull for some time and he hopes Neil might have a suitable bull.
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Credits
- Series Producer
- Teresa Bogan
- Presenter
- Matt Baker
- Presenter
- Ellie Harrison
- Presenter
- John Craven
- Presenter
- Tom Heap
- Presenter
- Adam Henson
