Open Country

Helen Mark visits East Anglia's best kept secret, the Brecks around Thetford - a combination of sandy heathland, England... Read more

Helen Mark visits the National Forest as its marks 25 years since it started to create huge areas of woodland.The entire... Read more

Once strewn with apple, pear and plum orchards the Vale of Evesham has been famous for its fruit since the middle ages. ... Read more

Without quite walking on water, Helen Mark uses a very low spring tide to walk between Tresco and Bryher, two of the Isl... Read more

Seamus Heaney grew up in Bellaghy in Northern Ireland and his poetry features many of the people who lived there and the... Read more

Revered by fly fishermen, Helen Mark visits the famous chalk streams of Hampshire and Wiltshire to find out about their ... Read more

For a Christmas special Helen Mark visits the snow covered landscape of Swedish Lapland in search of the mythical, and o... Read more

Helen Mark visits one of the Isle of Wight's great attractions, those famous chalk cliffs, The Needles, at the western e... Read more

In January 1942, Gordon Butcher was ploughing a field in the village of West Row, near Mildenhall in Suffolk. His plough... Read more

How did people live on the land 2,000 years ago, during the Iron Age? Helen Mark finds out when she visits Butser Ancien... Read more

Gertrude Jekyll was born in the late 19th Century and, as a talented gardener and craftswoman, managed to forge a highly... Read more

Ealing girl Konnie Huq finds out more about her favourite green spaces in London - Kew Gardens and Northala Fields. Konn... Read more

Mary-Ann Ochota joins Archaeologist of the Year, Richard Osgood and his team of veterans and local archaeologists as th... Read more

Look at any map of the district around Northwich in Cheshire and you'll see that it's dotted with numerous lakes, called... Read more