Season 38 • Episode 22
LatestAs the BBC celebrates this year’s UK City of Culture, Countryfile explores how the countryside around Bradford shaped the city and its creative legacy. A story of grit and wool.
Cinematography
Stunning British landscapes that make drizzle look romantic
Production
38 years of accidentally preserved rural history
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Countryfile accidentally became one of Britain's most important archives of disappearing rural traditions, filmed before broadband reached the fells.
The 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis episodes remain some of British television's most devastating unscripted broadcasting, with farmers destroying their own herds on camera.
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