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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • July 11, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Chris Packham shows us what wildlife spectacles we can look out for in summer. Nadiya Hussain shows us how to cook something special on the barbecue, lamb with rhubarb glaze, and Sean Fletcher takes to the great outdoors on a bike-packing adventure.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • July 12, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin visit the Lake District and take some alpacas for a walk. Simon Reeve takes the plunge when he tries wild swimming, and Nadiya Hussain shows us her twist on a classic summer pudding, Eton mess.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • July 13, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Adam Henson finds out all about lavender and its benefits, Margherita Taylor learns about the decline of our wild meadows and what we can do to help, and Mary Berry shows us what to do with a harvest of summer fruits when she makes a tasty smoothie.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • July 14, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, John Craven guides us through some top spots for birdwatching in the UK, Sean Fletcher shows that we can find nature in the most unlikely of places when he visits a nature trail at Manchester airport, and James Martin cooks up a tasty rustic recipe on the barbecue when he makes veal escalopes with salsa verde.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • July 15, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Marcus Wareing seeks inspiration for his kitchen garden when he visits an expert herb grower in Bristol. Wildlife artist Robert Fuller shows us the species that thrive near his home in North Yorkshire during the summer months, and Nadiya Hussain learns how to smoke fish and shows us how to make a delicious smoked haddock rarebit.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • July 18, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin visit the stunning Walney Island off the west coast of England, Arit Anderson meets a community of gardeners who have been prescribed gardening to help mental and physical illness, and Mary Berry shows us how to cook a perfect summer pudding.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • July 19, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, John Craven shares some top picks of the best beaches in Britain, Nadiya Hussain shows how to make a rice and edamame bean salad for a summer party, and Paul Martin finds a great way to enjoy a summer fruit harvest, by hiring a fruit tree.

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    • July 20, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Jules Hudson goes ‘champing', that's camping in a church. James Martin shows us how to cook a delicious chicken dish on the barbecue, and Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin get a special sighting of a flock of kites.

  • S01E09 Episode 9

    • July 21, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Nadiya Hussain learns all about garlic and shows us how to make a delicious garlic dressing, Arit Anderson gets a tour of landscape designer Dan Pearson's private garden, and Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin share a special encounter with dolphins.

  • S01E10 Episode 10

    • July 22, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, James Martin makes an 'nduja sausage and sheep's cheese pizza, Steve Brown learns about a UK crop of camomile, and Frances Tophill visits a woman in Somerset who grows an impressive range of Thai vegetables.

  • S01E11 Episode 11

    • July 25, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Simon Reeve meets a farmer who has enlisted the help of beavers to help with the problem of flooding, we meet a buzzard who has an unusual surrogate parent, and Marcus Wareing shows us how to cook his favourite dessert, the apple tarte tatin.

  • S01E12 Episode 12

    • July 26, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Marcus Wareing sets a challenge for some young chefs who visit his kitchen garden, Hugh Dennis takes to the skies over Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, and we meet Sid Hill, an ecological gardener who grows edible flowers.

  • S01E13 Episode 13

    • July 27, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, we meet a man who shares his passion for allotment gardening and shares some of his best tips, Paul Rose gets on his bike with a group of extraordinary cyclists, and Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin visit a colony of puffins in Pembrokeshire.

  • S01E14 Episode 14

    • July 28, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Arit Anderson visits a sustainable garden designed with nature and the environment in mind, Marcus Wareing gets tips from a specialist on how to grow shitake mushrooms, and we meet George Lowther who has created a lush tropical garden in Lincolnshire.

  • S01E15 Episode 15

    • August 13, 2022
    • BBC One

    Gethin Jones delivers the ultimate guide to a countryside summer featuring wildlife, food, gardening and outdoor adventure, all brought to you by a selection of favourite faces. In this episode, Frances Tophill visits an allotment grower on the Isle of Man who uses her plants to make natural skincare products, Iolo Williams goes in search of a pair of hen harriers in Snowdonia, and Tom Kerridge show us how to make his special version of Eton mess.