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Countryfile Spring Diaries

Series 4

Episode 3

Duration: 41 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HD

Today, John Craven visits Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire, a popular period drama film location that has provided a stunning backdrop to movies like Shakespeare in Love and more recently Wolf Hall.

Jules Hudson is on the trail of a tiny prehistoric creature that is holding up building projects all over the UK, at a time when we have a housing shortage of four million homes. Keeley Donovan is on the Gower peninsula in Wales to meet a group of women who think that they have found a cure for the worst of their menopause symptoms.
Paul Martin heads to Cambridgeshire to meet Martin Lines, a third-generation arable farmer who has turned his back on the farming methods of the past.

Cornwall couple Demelza and Danny love the outdoors, and Margherita Taylor is finding out how they inspired their young daughter and the entire village of Hayle in Cornwall to follow in their footsteps. And John reveals the best places in the UK to go cold water swimming. Show less

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