Countryfile
Season 36 Episode 34 - Farmers and Festivals
Every year, hundreds of farms across the UK diversify their income by opening their gates and hosting music festivals. Anita Rani heads to Somerset to meet sheep farmers Andy and Jen, and their sons, as they prepare to transform Fernhill Farm for an annual festival - something this farming family have been doing for 18 years. Anita helps festival organiser Kev make use of wool from the farm’s sheep to build giant sofas for the revellers, and later joins Andy and Jen’s 18-year-old son Kyle as he helps out in the farm café kitchen, where a mutton curry is being prepared for hundreds of campers. Back out in the fields, Anita visits the farm’s remarkable waste water cleaning system – a series of lakes which produce water so pure that it’s an official Ark habitat for endangered white claw crayfish. She also dips into the Countryfile archive to explore rural music, revisiting an outdoor violin performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending.
Episodes in Season 36
Rural Heritage
54 min
Shooting Estate
55 min
Audley End House
57 min
Flash: The UK’s Highest Village in Winter
57 min
Breaking into Farming
55 min
Underground Britain
54 min
Small Fishing Village
55 min
Livestock Market
55 min
Going to Extremes
57 min
Vanishing Villages
55 min
Dartmoor
65 min
Troubled Waters
55 min
Aberystwyth
45 min
Hidden Histories of Sherwood Forest
55 min
Compilation (9th April 2023)
57 min
Wild Britain
56 min
Dumfries House
57 min
Lambing Special
56 min
A Rural Welcome Revisit
57 min
Mental Health Awareness
57 min
Cumbrian Shepherdess - Spring
57 min
Upper Teesdale
57 min
Lower Hampen Farm
57 min
Argyll Hope Spot
57 min
Porthcawl Surf and Sand
57 min
Rare Breeds 50th Anniversary Compilation
55 min
Ronald Blythe’s Suffolk
54 min
Flower Farming
55 min
Countryside Cycling
55 min
Wild Fires
55 min
Hay Time
57 min
Dumfries House
55 min
Glasgow
55 min
Farmers and Festivals
52 min
Bannau Brycheiniog
55 min
Dame Judi Dench Special
55 min
Young Shepherdess
55 min
One Man and His Dog
56 min
Harvest 1
54 min
Harvest 2
55 min
Highland Games Compilation
54 min
Autumn Spectacle
54 min
Agmash Auction Hub
55 min
Ramble for Children in Need 2023
69 min
Wild Britain
55 min
South Downs
55 min
Dumfries House
53 min
Poole Harbour
53 min
Elan Valley
55 min
Country Lore
55 min
A Cumbrian Christmas
55 min
River Lea
55 min
