Countryfile: A Cornish Christmas


5:05 pm - 6:05 pm, Sunday, December 21 on BBC One London HD (101)

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A Cornish Christmas
Season 2025, Episode 1

Matt Baker, Anita Rani and Adam Henson uncover the magic of Cadgwith on the Cornish coast at Christmas. From tree deliveries to seasonal pasty-making and a pub full of sea shanties, they see how the community comes together at this special time of year - all building to the big switch-on that floods the cove with festive lights


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Cast & Crew

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Matt Baker (Presenter)
Anita Rani (Presenter)
Adam Henson (Presenter)
Mark Beech (Series editor)
Becky Pratt (Series producer)

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Matt Baker (Presenter)
Born: December 23, 1977 in Easington, County Durham
Best Known For: Blue Peter, The One Show and Countryfile.
Early-life: Matthew James Baker was born in Easington, County Durham, on December 23, 1977. He grew up on his family's sheep farm and developed a love of the countryside and animals. He was obsessed with gymnastics as a youngster and was told he had enough ability to compete at a high level but he was forced to give up the sport after being diagnosed with anaemia aged 14. He went on to study drama at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
Career: In the late 1990s, Baker toured around the north of England with a 1970s comedy disco-dancing revival show called Disco Inferno. He did freestyle routines with back flips and juggled wooden clubs. After finding out that Blue Peter were looking for a new presenter, he sent the BBC a showreel and managed to secure an interview. During his seven years as a Blue Peter presenter, he won two Baftas for Best Children's Presenter. He left the show in 2006 and went on to co-present Countryfile Summer Diaries, Open Country, Animal Squad, Countryfile, Secret Britain and One Man and His Dog. After a stint as a guest presenter on The One Show, he became a permanent host alongside Alex Jones in early 2011. He participated in Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, partnering professional dancer Aliona Vilani, and finished runner-up.
Quote: "If you dedicate yourself to something, you get a result. That's a formula I've stuck to all my life."
Trivia: He raised more than £1.9million for Children in Need in 2012 when he travelled around the country in a rickshaw. Wed childhood sweetheart Nicola Mooney in 2004. They have two children, Luke and Molly.
Anita Rani (Presenter)
Born: October 25, 1977 in Bradford
Best Known For: Various presenting roles.
Early-life: Born Ahita Rahi Nazran in Bradford on October 25, 1977. Anita enjoyed an early taste of broadcasting when she hosted her own show on Sunrise Radio at the age of 14. She went on to attend the University of Leeds before landing work as a TV researcher for the BBC and various independent TV companies.
Career: Rani soon began to make a name for herself in front of the camera on shows such as The Edit on Channel 5, The State We're In and Poetry Slam on BBC Three and Desi DNA on BBC Two. In 2005, she was a regular reporter on The Cricket Show on Channel 4 and a year later, she co-presented Cricket AM on Sky Sports. In 2009, she began co-presenting Watchdog on BBC One. She took on the role of presenting Four Rooms on Channel 4 in 2011. She has also collaborated with Justin Rowlatt on the documentary travelogues India on Four Wheels, China on Four Wheels and Russia on Four Wheels. In August 2015, it was announced that she would be a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.
Quote: "To get to experience a different country in any way is a pleasure and privilege."
Trivia: In 2012, Rani won the BBC's Great Sport Relief Bake Off.
Adam Henson (Presenter)
Best Known For: Countryfile.
Early-life: Adam was born in 1966 on the farm where he now works, Bemborough Farm near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. He spent some time on the Chatsworth Estate before attending Seale-Hayne Agricultural College in Newton Abbot. After graduating, he spent a year travelling through Australia with his friend and later business partner Duncan Andrews. They worked on sheep and arable stations and a kiwi plantation in New Zealand before returning to Australia to plant tea in Queensland.
Career: Henson's father started the Cotswold Farm Park that he now runs with Andrews. It attracts more than 70,000 visitors a year. Henson made the move to TV in 2001 when he began presenting on Countryfile. Since then, he has worked on Countryfile Summer Diaries, Inside Out, Lambing Live and Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. In 2013, he worked with culinary writer Nigel Slater on Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen. Slater cooked fresh versions of supermarket favourites using produce grown by Henson.
Quote: "There's not much chance of me becoming a media darling when I have to come back (to the farm) and muck out the pigs after filming!"
Trivia: In his spare time, Henson enjoys shopping for clothes.
Mark Beech (Series editor)
Becky Pratt (Series producer)

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