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Country Focus Episodes

  1. The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show 2016

    Rachael Garside broadcasts live from the 2016 Royal Welsh Agricultural Show.

  2. On Your Bike, Capability Brown and Making Sticks

    Exploring getting up the Clwydian Range, a renowned landscape gardener and carving a stick

  3. Parking, a Butterfly House and a Beach Hut

    Asking if parking should be free in rural towns. Plus the National Botanic Garden of Wales

  4. The EU Referendum, Barefoot Walking and Gin

    Reaction to and analysis of the EU and the rural vote, plus gin and hiraeth.

  5. Vet School, Wildflowers and the Summer Solstice

    Plans for a Wales veterinary college, 'off-the-shelf' wildflower seeds and Bryn Celli Ddu.

  6. Wildlife Magazine, Tree Seeds and the Community Pub

    Exploring an environment magazine's sustainability, collecting seeds and a village local.

  7. A Heart of Wales Walk

    Exploring the Heart of Wales rural walking trail.

  8. The Welsh Pig Industry

    The rural news magazine explores what the future holds for the Welsh pig industry.

  9. Leave or Remain?

    Weighing up the agricultural arguments for both remaining in and leaving the EU.

  10. Say Cheese, the Curlew Walk and Saving Swifts

    A co-operative expanding its cheese production facilities, plus two birds under threat.

  11. Natural Navigation and Let the Ducks Eat Kale

    Navigation the natural way and what to feed ducks if not bread.

  12. A Farmer's Five-a-Day, Planting Vines and the Dawn Chorus

    Increasing fruit and veg consumption, a Monmouth vineyard and different bird calls.

  13. Strangles, Abattoirs and British Wool

    A horse disease in north east Wales, the future for Welsh slaughterhouses and British wool

  14. #Wales2016: The Rural Vote

    Country Focus asks what listeners' votes mean for farming, the environment and rural life.

  15. A Farm Adventure

    Rachael Garside visits an award-winning farm attraction in the Brecon Beacons.

  16. Artisan Chocolate

    Rachael Garside with a selection box of Welsh chocolatiers.

  17. Farmers March, Lime Kiln Bats and Hedge-Laying

    Farmers march to London, hedge laying, food waste, sheep worrying and lime kiln bats.

  18. Organics, Bison and Green Energy

    Rachael Garside visits the Rhug Estate in Denbighshire.

  19. Bluetongue, When Nature Calls and Milling Flour

    If livestock farmers are ready for bluetongue, public conveniences and a community mill.

  20. The EU Referendum, Dementia and Back to the Sea

    Welsh farmers position in the EU referendum, rural dementia and releasing seals.

  21. Rescuing Wildlife

    Country Focus meets a buzzard, hedgehogs and seal pups being cared for by the RSPCA.

  22. Circus Animals, Remembering the Sea Empress and Go-Karting in Conwy

    Banning wild animals in circuses, 20 years since the Sea Empress oil spill and go-karting.

  23. Saving the Sea Bass, a City Farm and a Smokery

    The new sea bass rules, Wales's only city farm and smoking food in the Black Mountains.

  24. Wetlands

    Rachael Garside visits the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust's Llanelli Wetland Centre.

  25. Into the Future

    Welsh landscapes, the National Botanic Gardens' uncertain future and the Rhondda.

  26. Flooding Farm Fields, Visitor-Giving and Art to Promote a Canal

    Paying farmers to flood their land, visitors paying a little extra and the Swansea Canal.

  27. 03/01/2016

    Rachael Garside visits Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast.

  28. A Rural Round-Up

    Looking back on the highlights of life in rural Wales as 2015 draws to a close.

  29. Full Steam Ahead to Christmas

    The rural news magazine boards the Santa train with the Gwili steam railway.

  30. Bovine TB trials halted, flood defence and dog therapy

    Country Focus hears reaction to the suspension of the badger vaccination trials.

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