Ellie Harrison meets wildlife photographer and friend of Countryfile, Simon King, to get a crash course in how to photograph wildlife.

Countryfile celebrates Christmas on the stunning Auchlyne estate in Scotland. Charlotte and Emma help monitor beavers on the estate, and Anita joins Adam to help out on his farm.

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor reveal the unsung heroes of the Stour estuary in Essex, and Tom Heap investigates a tale of two rural high streets in lockdown.

Ellie Harrison and Sean Fletcher visit the Black Mountains on the border between Wales and England, and Joe Sugg competes in a hedge-laying competition.

Countryfile launches Plant Britain, an ambitious two-year challenge to get us all planting to help combat climate change and at the same time, boost our wellbeing and wildlife.

Anita Rani and Joe Crowley visit the historic South Ormsby estate, and Tom Heap asks whether it's time to ditch the greenbelt.

Ellie Harrison discovers how our countryside can provide the perfect tonic in troubled times, and we look through the archives to rediscover the restorative potential of our green spaces.

Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith visit Falmouth for the start of the oyster season, and Adam Henson finds out why British turkey farmers could be in for tough time this Christmas.

The Countryfile team head out on a series of one-to-one rambles with inspiring young people from around the UK, all in aid of this year's Children in Need.

Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison visit conservation projects at Lake Vyrnwy in Wales, and Charlotte Smith investigates the UK's environmental watchdogs.

Joe Crowley visits Box Hill in Surrey to take on its infamous zigzag cycle route, and the team look back at some of the best thrills and spills from the Countryfile archives.

Adam Henson takes us through the toughest harvest of his career on his Gloucestershire farm, and Charlotte Smith picks grapes from sun-ripened Welsh vines.

Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison visit Devon, once the cider capital of England, to discover how orchards are being revived. Ellie also finds out why one of our rarest bats is so at home in this region.

Ellie Harrison and Joe Crowley are in the Lake District to celebrate the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth.

Matt Baker and Charlotte Smith are with four of the UK's top shepherds and their sheepdogs for this year's Countryfile One Man and His Dog competition, taking place at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor are in Stoke-on-Trent to learn about an ambitious scheme to bring the countryside into the heart of the city, including moving a stretch of the River Trent.

Anita Rani goes back to her Yorkshire roots, exploring the lesser-known River Burn, and Adam Henson meets this year's One Man and His Dog competitors.

Special guest Mary Berry reveals how farming and the countryside have influenced her life and career – and still do. Matt Baker is by her side to discover what inspired her during her childhood on her parents' smallholding and the rural issues she holds dear today. Mary is a champion of small producers and local produce, but she loves her pigs too. Adam Henson is despatched to investigate the state of British pig farming, while Anita visits a school with a field-to-fork ethos. This is music to Mary's ears, and something she would love to see rolled out across more schools across the country. And how will Matt fare when he has to cook for the UK's queen of the kitchen?

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor visit the Somerleyton Estate in Suffolk to find out about an ambitious project to turn East Anglia into a giant nature reserve.

Matt Baker and Anita Rani visit the ancient village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. Adam Henson and Robert Llewellyn find out how green farming machines measure up to traditional diesel.

Ellie Harrison is in the Cotswolds to visit the eccentric folly Broadway Tower. Also, a look back through the Countryfile archive to encounters with unusual events in the countryside.

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor visit Wisley and Ockham Common, a heathland habitat that is home to rare species such as the sand lizard and the nightjar.

Matt Baker and Anita Rani visit Chichester Harbour, the only Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the UK that's managed by a harbour authority.

Ellie Harrison and Tom Heap visit the Shropshire Hills to find out about an ambitious project to create a nature corridor between two peaks.

Anita Rani and Matt Baker visit the Blean, an ancient woodland in the heart of Kent where they get an exclusive look at a unique wilding project. There is a report from Gloucestershire on the elusive pine marten, while one of the driest springs on record is causing big problems at Adam Henson's farm.

Matt Baker explores the stretch of the Grand Union Canal that runs close to his home in the Chilterns - meeting those who live and work on the waterway and also getting to grips with an engineering marvel that keeps the whole system flowing. Elsewhere, Tom Heap investigates how farmers are adjusting to the challenges posed by climate change, and John Craven launches this year's Countryfile photography competition with the help of singer and broadcaster Cerys Matthews and wildlife expert Simon King.

As organisations like the National Trust open up to visitors again, Ellie Harrison heads to Charlecote Park in Warwickshire, one of the great estates of the Elizabethan era. She's rolling up her sleeves to help with Britain's oldest managed flock of Jacob sheep, and visits a working Georgian water mill that's busier than ever, supplying the lockdown baking boom. Dwayne Fields investigates the challenges facing members of the BAME community living in the countryside, and Adam Henson is judging entrants in an online livestock show.

Anita Rani visits Epping Forest to find out about its past, its wildlife and to meet some of the people who look after it. She also discovers the art of `cattle whispering" when she meets the herd of longhorns that help to conserve the Forest and, at dusk, she's on the trail of one of the UK's rarest creatures. Wildlife film-maker Hamza Yassin gets up close to a much-loved seabird, the puffin, near his home on the west coast of Scotland, while Gareth Wyn Jonesoffers a glimpse into his life as a hill farmer in Wales. Down on his own farm, Adam Hensonhas a shearing dilemma to solve.

As well as tending to his crops, much of Adam Henson's time on his Cotswold farm is devoted to caring for his animals. Each and every one of them is important to him, from his commercial flock of sheep to his chickens, and from his pigs to his ponies, with many of them having become much-loved characters to the show's viewers. This special edition of Countryfile takes a journey into the archives to revisit and rediscover some of Adam's highs and lows with his marvellous menagerie of creatures.

Steve Brown explores Elmley Nature Reserve on the Isle of Sheppey, where swallows and swifts are gathering in their hordes, heralding the arrival of summer. Margherita Taylor is on the hunt for an invasive species of moth that threatens not just the oaks on London's Hampstead Heath, but walkers too. On his farm, Adam Henson's horses get their hooves checked and he catches up with trainer Jonjo O'Neill to see how his racehorses are coping with life off the track.

John Craven is at home in his garden, where he gives us tips on what butterflies to look out for and how to get involved in a nationwide survey. He also catches up with NHS fundraiser Tom Moore to discover what role the countryside has played in his life. Shepherdess Hannah Jackson puts her two new collie pups through their first paces as working dogs, and Adam Henson turns teacher as he takes his piglets to the country's home -schooled children.

Sean Fletcher heads Hampton Court, not far from his west London home, to see how the team there keep the gardens and grounds in prime condition, taking the reins of shire horses as they pull and harrow the ground for the summer ahead. Kate Humble reports from her Wye Valley home patch on how local food producers are rallying round during the crisis, and Adam Henson turns out a new Gloucester calf onto spring pasture.

Ellie Harrison is on her home turf in Gloucestershire, where she helps with important conservation work at Slimbridge Wetland Centre, gets a ringside seat to watch some kingfisher parents busy feeding their young and explores the treasures of an ancient bluebell wood. Adam Henson reveals how his horses are helping to create a wildlife haven and Tom Heap investigates how fly-tipping is blighting the countryside more than ever.

Helen Skelton is on her home patch in West Yorkshire, visiting Harewood House to learn more about its conservation projects and dropping in to her local donkey sanctuary. Olympic medal-winning triathletes Jonny and Alistair Brownlee demonstrate how to keep fit under lockdown, Tom Heap discovers how school closures have hit vital outdoor education, and Adam Henson steps in to help a nanny goat in distress.

Joe Crowley is on his home patch in north London as he explores the Lea Valley, paying a visit to one of the UK's biggest salad growers to see what impact coronavirus is having. On International Dawn Chorus Day, bird expert Adrian Thomas reveals what to listen out for, shepherdess Hannah Jackson talks about how she's coping with the lockdown, and Adam Henson goes flat out to get his spring barley in.

With the country still in lockdown, Matt Baker is on his home patch, building a pond, meeting a peregrine that lacks the confidence to hunt, and getting crafty with the paintbrushes in his back garden. Wildlife film-maker Jack Perks reveals the world beneath the water of his garden pond, Adam Henson has a lot a lot of hungry mouths to feed on his farm, and Kate Humble takes viewers round her home village to find out how the community is pulling together in these challenging times.

This week, Countryfile is in the heart of the Peak District, where the pub is most definitely the hub! Anita Rani hears how the locals here saved Bamford's village pub.

The team visit Ballycastle, a coastal community on the north eastern tip of Ireland that's quickly becoming known for its local crafts and artisan food and drink.

The team visits Welney Wildlife Reserve in Norfolk, where Charlotte Smith helps out with a swan census and Steve Brown is on the trail of the elusive cranes.

A compilation programme championing cottage industries, with Ellie Harrison meeting a Herefordshire woman who sells hand-crafted products all revolving around fire.