Countryfile: A Fresh Start to the Year, in Northumberland


6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sunday, January 11 on BBC One London (1)

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About this Broadcast

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A Fresh Start to the Year, in Northumberland
Season 2026, Episode 1

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor explore the Wintry landscapes of Northumberland. They meet volunteers and wildlife enthusiasts who are embracing the cold and finding energy, calm and community in the countryside. Also, Tom Heap investigates calls for greater public access to rivers and lakes, while Adam Henson visits Stirlingshire to meet a farmer competing for Team GB in the Winter Olympics


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Cast & Crew

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Matt Baker (Presenter)
Tom Heap (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.
Margherita Taylor (Presenter)
Tom Heap (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)

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