Countryfile Spring Diaries - Episode Guide

In the New Forest, there is a sense of anticipation in the air as its most famous residents prepare to give birth - Jules takes to the saddle to find out why spring is such a crucial time for the New Forest ponies. Few things on the forager's calendar are more sensationally seasonal than the sap of the silver birch. The window to tap into this elusive liquor lasts just a couple of weeks. Margherita reports on the best way to turn to the trees for a springtime pick-me-up. And Paul Martin breathes new life into his Victorian smallholding in Wiltshire. His spring diary starts with a hunt for the perfect sheep to restore his fields.

John Craven and the Countryfile Spring Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the secrets of spring. Keeley Donovan discovers how just one in fifty people in the UK experiences spring as a truly multisensory experience. And one of the most fragrant and emblematic symbols of spring is under attack - Jules Hudson investigates why native bluebells could be extinct in the space of a generation.

John Craven and the Countryfile Spring Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the secrets of spring. The team investigate the arrival of a tiny beetle that can make or break a crop and look at cooking up a storm with a springtime coastal forage. Rookie smallholder Paul Martin gives tips on how to keep bees.

John Craven and the Countryfile Spring Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the secrets of spring. The team find out how to give toads a helping hand to reach their natural habitat and report on how Cumbrian communities are working to recover from the winter floods - just in time for the tourist season. Fledgling smallholder Paul Martin provides tips on how to build a watery wildlife haven.

John Craven and the Countryfile Spring Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the secrets of spring. The team celebrate spring for the final time this year and file their final reports of the season.

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson Paul Martin and Margherita Taylor - report on the most interesting stories of the season. Jules discovers how the latest tech could help get dogs in shape this spring. Meanwhile, Keeley reveals the surprises inside a favourite health food, and meets a farmer bringing an Icelandic superfood yoghurt to Yorkshire. And on Exmoor, Margherita learns the role of keen-eyed volunteers in preventing butterfly crime.

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson Paul Martin and Margherita Taylor - report on interesting stories of the season. Today, Margherita visits Devon's first commercial tea plantation to discover why the UK could have the ideal environment to grow tea, and finds out how to make clotted cream to go with it. In Kent, Keeley investigates what an earlier spring could mean for the countryside. Jules is in Jersey to find out how golf is helping to protect some of the country's most endangered species. And Paul reveals that feeding bread to ducks could be doing them more harm than good.

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team report on the most interesting stories of the season. In this episode, Keeley Donovan joins a group of volunteers renovating vital mountain shelters in the Scottish Highlands. Margherita Taylor meets WWII Land Girl, 93-year-old Elizabeth Henderson, to discover whether the future of farming could be more female. Joe Crowley visits the Vale of Evesham to meet a group of locals who are passionate about asparagus. Steve Brown is in Cambridgeshire to discover how some birds have different accents depending on where in the country they come from. And Paul reveals how to get a bumper crop of fruit from your trees this year.

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team report on the most interesting stories of the season. In this edition, Jules Hudson takes to the water to uncover a shocking picture of how plastic is making its way into the food chain, and finds out what can be done to make a difference. In Manchester, Keeley Donovan discover how a cup of tea and a cat could be good for the health. In Wiltshire, Paul gets top tips on how to grow prize-winning giant veg. And Steve Brown is in North Yorkshire to learn how anyone can get a sofa's-eye view of wildlife.

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team report on the most interesting stories of the season. In this episode, Keeley Donovan visits an inspirational project in the north east which uses chickens to tackle loneliness and isolation in OAPs. In Somerset, Margherita Taylor discovers the healing power of flowers, while Jules Hudson takes a look at housing of the future. Paul Hudson reflects on the highs and lows of a year trying to live the good life, and in Devon, John unveils a new statue by a local artist on Lynmouth seafront to celebrate its walking heritage.

John Craven is on the Malvern Hills, celebrating their spring beauty and wildlife and also their cultural impact as the inspiration for family classics such as Tolkein's Lord of the Rings and CS Lewis's Narnia. Keeley Donovan is in Scotland to find out about dogs being trained to help people with dementia in Dundee. She visits inmates at HMP Castle Huntly nearby to learn how prisoners here help to train these dogs. Margherita Taylor is on the trail of some futuristic foods in Norwich, home to the John Innes Research Centre. Among them are purple tomatoes - specially developed to be super disease-busters. Paul Martin discovers how to fight an invasion of moths in his home. Jules Hudson is on the Gwent Levels investigating how a new 15-mile, six-lane extension to the M4 motorway through south Wales could devastate wildlife. Matt Baker is in Lincolnshire to discover how British flower farmers took on the Dutch tulip invasion.

John Craven celebrates the beauty of the Malvern Hills, while Keeley Donovan is in Scotland to investigate how the New Zealand flatworm, an invasive species, is destroying the earthworm population. Keeley gets the lowdown on how to keep them at bay. Paul Martin joins in a spring-clean on a stretch of canal in Birmingham. He discovers how Dhruv Boruah and his extraordinary bike boat are causing quite a splash. Horrified at the haul of rubbish retrieved from the water and the canal side, Paul discovers what harm litter is doing to wildlife and potentially to humans. Margherita Taylor is at Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre in north Somerset for the first of three special Countryfile Spring Diaries reports. Jules Hudson is at 17th-century Worsbrough Mill in South Yorkshire, where the miller is retiring and the search is on to find a replacement. Matt Baker is out at sea as he joins the RNLI for a high-octane training exercise.

John Craven enlists with firefighters in south Wales while Paul Martin discovers that the Rhondda Valley - one of the wettest places in the UK - is braced for around a thousand fires. In Malvern, sheep are nature's fire prevention officers but these animals have vanished from the valleys and the vegetation is running riot. Fire chief Craig knows how to tame the landscape. Paul also meets Becky Davies of Natural Resources Wales and discovers how to safeguard lives and creatures against the worst. Steve Brown's in a Kent garden which needs cat-proofing. Guy Barter, chief adviser to the Royal Horticultural Society has a few tricks but Prof Mark Fellowes, who has studied cats and their territories, reckons Steve could be on to a losing battle.

Keeley Donovan is on the shores of Loch Ness finding out about a cutting-edge trial by the ambulance service, where satellite technology could save lives in one of the most remote areas of Britain where patients can be as much as five hours away from the nearest hospital. While John celebrates some of the country's most beautiful villages to visit in springtime, Margherita Taylor's in the Yorkshire Dales in Hudswell. With house prices soaring it's getting harder for villagers to stay in the communities in which they work and have grown up. Hudswell is benefitting from a charitable windfall and Margherita meets a family who it has enabled to stay. In Spennithorne she checks out discounted homes which are helping villagers avoid the property pinch.

Jules Hudson is just up the road in Herefordshire with his dog Teddy to sniff out the spring dangers lurking outdoors and in homes which could harm pets. From bluebells to daffodils, reptiles like the adder on the loose and Alabama rot, which can carry a death sentence to dogs from just a roll in the mud, vet Charlotte Watkins warns of the perils and how to avoid them. Paul Martin is at smallholding school in Somerset with two wannabees looking to live the good life. They've already got chickens and will soon be welcoming pigs, but along with Sally Morgan, who runs courses for smallholders, Paul wants Tom and Faith to be braced for the ups and downs. Sally has some hot tips about what to grow to break into burgeoning markets, plus plenty of tips on squabbling hens, rooting pigs and planting, and as Paul knows from having his own smallholding for nearly ten years, it can be a wonderful life-enhancing experience.

Margherita Taylor learns that rural villages can be hit hard by crime, and Paul Martin meets a man who fell in love with the creatures who threaten his livelihood.

Margherita Taylor sees the injuries that plastic litter can cause to British sea life, and Paul Martin gets tips to keep your summer pots in flower all season long.

Jules Hudson uncovers a new scheme that could help builders meet the demand for new homes in the UK, and Keeley Donovan meets a group of women who have found a cold water cure.

Jules Hudson reveals the real reasons why half of the nation's dogs are obese, and Margherita Taylor shows us how to avoid sending tonnes of clothing to landfill.

Jules Hudson visits a charity that helps to rehome bereaved pets, and Paul Martin meets a community who are determined to save the last native British daffodil.