Fresh fields

He’s fronted the nation’s favourite countryside show for 16 years. Matt Baker on rescuing sheep, life-changing farmer dramas and feeling like a duck out of water

It was spring 2013. A little afternoon sunlight was glinting through the rushes into one of the most secret spots in the world: a quarter of a square metre of marsh at RSPB Ynys-hir in Powys where, re

An exceptionally dry and warm spring - almost the polar opposite of last year’s weather - has caused issues aplenty for Joe Stanley

When he’s not growing food for the slugs in Sussex he’s glued to horse racing

TV WEEK: 31 MAY - 6 JUNE

Helen Cartwright’s converted cowshed proved the perfect place to embrace a new outdoor lifestyle and enjoy the wide country vistas from every room