Sussex

March 20, 2016
60 min
2016 - Episode 12: Sussex

2016 - Episode 12: Sussex

Countryfile - Backdrop

Overview

Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison are in Sussex exploring Ashdown Forest, the inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood in AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Matt also visits a farm belonging to the Countryside Restoration Trust, which promotes wildlife-friendly farming. Ellie is on the hunt for woodpeckers - easy to hear, but harder to spot! John Craven is at West Rise, the state junior school with a difference: it has a bronze-age settlement and buffalo roaming its marshlands. Tom Heap is in Scotland where there's fresh concern about the impact that wind farms could have on birdlife. But how much of a threat do turbines really pose? And Adam Henson meets the farmer opening his farm to help refugees.

Episode Information

TV Show

Countryfile

Season

2016

Episode Number

12

Air Date

March 20, 2016

Runtime

60 minutes