Countryfile: The Balmoral Show
01:55 am - 02:50 am, Tuesday, June 9 on BBC Two England (2)
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The Balmoral Show
Season 2026, Episode 1
Sean Fletcher and Adam Henson are in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, for the 157th Balmoral Show, the region's largest agricultural and food event, welcoming more than 100,000 visitors each year. Adam explores heritage crafts that the community are determined to preserve and joins families showing their prize livestock, while Sean is in charge of the stopwatch at the Tractor handling competition
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Cast & Crew
Sean Fletcher
(Presenter)
Adam Henson
(Presenter)
Mark Beech
(Series editor)
Becky Pratt
(Series producer)
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Did You Know..
Sean Fletcher
(Presenter)
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)
