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Open Country Episodes

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    The Isle of Eels

    Helen Mark visits the Isle of Eels and joins their annual eel day parade

  2. Southwell's Workhouse

    Southwell's workhouse, minster and a 200-year-old apple tree.

  3. Inspiration On The Island of Jura

    The Isle of Jura has inspired many artists, including George Orwell. Helen Mark hears why.

  4. Rockfield Studios

    Laura Barton visits Rockfield Studios, used by Queen to record Bohemian Rhapsody.

  5. Family Monsters Garden in Swaffham and Chelsea

    Helen Mark visits the Escape Project in Swaffham as they prepare for Chelsea Flower Show.

  6. Ulva - An Island for the People

    Helen Mark visits Ulva to hear about plans to repopulate and revitalise the island.

  7. Exercise Shallow Grave

    Mary-Ann Ochota joins former members of the armed forces as they unearth Saxon artefacts.

  8. Longborough's Opera

    How a converted cattle shed has become home to a major opera festival in the Cotswolds.

  9. Stonehenge and its community

    The makers and trades people of Stonehenge, whose lives are shaped by their landscape.

  10. Sussex Weald Ironworking

    Ian Marchant discovers that Sussex was once the epicentre of the international arms trade.

  11. George Eliot Country

    Helen Mark visits Nuneaton to follow in the footsteps of Victorian novelist George Eliot

  12. Jallianwala Grove: Remembering the 1919 massacre in Amritsar

    The first memorial to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre has been created in Britain.

  13. Changing Tides at Morecambe Bay

    Morecambe Bay is changing. Helen Mark hears how buildings and artworks will set the tone.

  14. Surfing on Scotland鈥檚 North Coast

    Thurso鈥檚 surfing community on why their reef break is one of Europe鈥檚 best waves.

  15. Somerset Wassail

    Helen Mark visits Somerset to find out about the ancient tradition of wassailing.

  16. The Pub at the End of Easdale

    Helen Mark learns what it takes to run a pub on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale.

  17. Journey into Space, in Sutherland

    Ian Marchant visits a boggy Highland wilderness that could be the UK's first spaceport.

  18. The Changing Thetford Forest

    Ian Marchant meets some of the unexpected animals in Thetford Forest in Norfolk.

  19. A Year in Roald Dahl Country

    Great Missenden is Roald Dahl country. Helen Mark discovers the writers love of nature.

  20. The Strawberry Line Community

    Far from being abandoned, the Strawberry Line in Somerset has a new role in the community

  21. Reservoirs and lost villages

    Helen Mark visits Derbyshire to hear about reservoirs and long-gone villages.

  22. Moorland on the mend

    Caz Graham re-visits moors destroyed by fire this summer, to ask how they are recovering.

  23. Leicester鈥檚 hidden gem - Bradgate Park - bought for the locals, but where鈥檚 all the archive?

    Bradgate park bought for the people of Leicester from the heirs of Lady Jane Grey.

  24. Life on the canals at Foxton Locks

    Life on the canals, from the lock keeper to those who live on the water at Foxton Locks.

  25. Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh

    An exploration of how the sea and Suffolk coast inspired Benjamin Britten's music

  26. Ash to Ash

    Ash trees are dying from ash dieback. Helen Mark hears how Kent is preserving their memory

  27. The Suffolk Maharajah

    How did an Indian Maharajah end living and being buried in a quaint rural Suffolk village?

  28. Herodsfoot, Thankful Village

    Helen Mark visits the 'thankful village' of Herodsfoot in Cornwall.

  29. The Windermere Boys

    How 300 orphans of the holocaust began a new life in the Lake District.

  30. Liverpool Giants

    Liverpool's landscape is dwarfed by three beloved giants. Helen Mark gets up close.

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