Country Focus Episodes Episode guide
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Snake Bites, the Longest Day and the Final Stitch
An adder hotspot, nature's musical inspiration & the closure of a rural tailor.
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Pure Pembrokeshire Gold
A profile of a Pembrokeshire Early potato producer.
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Deer in the Garden and an Organic Tannery
The problem of wild deer in our gardens and a making use of goat and sheepskins.
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St Fagans at 70
A profile of a unique national open air museum of everyday Welsh folk.
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Parking at Beauty Spots and Swift Towers
The price of parking at a tourist location and helping swifts in the city.
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Xyllela and a Welsh Solar System
The plant disease threatening our countryside and we visit Mars, a village in Snowdonia.
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Drink & Refill and Rare Rhododendrons
Increasing access to public drinking water and the efforts to save some rare plants.
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For the Love of Plants
This week we join the green-fingered brigade and visit a local garden centre.
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On the Trail of the Ancient Yew
Wales is blessed with a large collection of yews - but what protection do they have?
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Picking Wild Flowers and a Rural Hero
The wild flowers that are ok to pick and the woman who works tirelessly for her community.
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Hope Springs Eternal
Preserving the sacred springs and holy wells of Wales.
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A Fishy Deal and Livestock Worrying
Anger over fishing rights with Brexit transition deal and challenging livestock worrying.
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Keeping Fit and Keeping Open
We meet the communities running their own sport facilities in rural Wales.
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Championing Farming and Whooper Swans
The NFU's first female president, and the whooper swans enjoying the weather.
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Winter Weather and the Zero Waste shop
How the rural community are coping with the weather and ditching the plastic packaging.
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Free Range Eggs
We meet the woman at the top of the pecking order of her free range egg business.
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Live Exports and a Corgi Comeback
The implications of a ban on live exports and good news for the Pembroke Corgi.
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Hedgehogs in Decline and Miniature Shetlands
The prickly subject of why we are losing hedgehogs, and we meet some very small ponies.
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It's FebruDairy!
Programme serving everyone living in the countryside, and tackling issues affecting them.
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An oversupply of Goat milk and Mangalitza pigs
We hear some devastating news for goat milk producers and meet some curly-haired pigs.
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Rural Broadband and What Killed the Porpoise?
Issues with super-fast broadband in rural Wales, plus a mammal post-mortem.
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It's Veganuary!
Rachael Garside visits Swansea Market to find out why more people becoming Vegan.
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A Rural Review of 2017
Rachael Garside takes a look back at the highlights of the Country Focus year.
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Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly!
A prickly look at holly, a popular natural ornament for the festive season.
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Wagyu Beef, Kindling and Alpaca
Japanese Welsh beef, breeding alpaca and why kindling is good for 'esteam'.
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Homeopathic Vets and Roasting Chestnuts
A row over alternative medicine for animals, and sweet chestnut trees are under threat.
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The Royal Welsh Winter Fair
Programme serving everyone living in the countryside, and tackling issues affecting them.
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Bringing Opera to the Village Hall
Behind the scenes of the Mid Wales Opera Company.
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Plastic Pollution, Rural Roads and Bogs
Plastic in our seas, drive with care in the countryside and saving a rare habitat.
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Lynx On The Run, Halloumi & Slipper Limpets
An escaped Lynx, sheep's milk and medicinal use of an invasive limpet.
