Wynford Vaughan-Thomas takes a seasonal look at the countryside at this time of year. He accompanies a country vet on his rounds, visits a smokery in Oxfordshire and goes bird-watching on gravel pits at
Thrapston, Northamptonshire. Eric Halsall from BBCtv's One Man and His Dog talks about sheep-dogs on a farm near his home in the Pennines. Producer HELEN GILL
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 11. 15 pm)