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Ellie Harrison takes to her bike to explore the route of the Tour de France, which is coming to the roads around Oxenhope in West Yorkshire in a couple of weeks鈥� time. She discovers that the fields here are being turned into almighty artworks. Along the route of the Tour farmers and artists are getting together to create a gigantic spectacle to welcome the cyclists, using the hillsides as their canvas. Ellie helps local school children create the image of a huge leaping lady in the landscape, using mountain bike tyres to churn up the ground and draw out the figure.

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One of the twelve gigantic pieces of landscape art around Oxenhope is entitled 鈥淥ne Man and his Dog鈥�, created by artist Simon Manfield.听 It听features a vast听shepherd whistling to an equally huge sheep dog. John Craven meets local听shepherds who鈥檝e embraced this art project and allowed their land to be used as a massive canvas. Matt Baker better watch out though, as John tries his hand at commentating on a dog trial when local sheep dog trainer Ian Ibbotson makes the artwork come alive. But have Ian and his dog got the skills to pen their sheep in the palm of the giant shepherd?

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Ellie learns that these windswept hills were once the training ground for a now forgotten cycling phenomenon. From the 1950s to the 1980s one woman ruled these moors and dominated British cycling. She was one of Britain鈥檚 greatest ever athletes and her name was Beryl Burton. Ellie speaks to Beryl鈥檚 husband Charlie and her daughter Denise to find out more about this Yorkshire working mother who smashed world records, gathered golds and racked up both national and international titles. Beryl was not only famous for beating the women in her field, she also beat the men!

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Last year, Caryl Hughes won a unique scholarship run by the National Trust and the Welsh Young Farmers Club. The 23-year-old was given the chance to manage a beautiful and remote Welsh hill farm for a year. With this daunting task ahead of her, Adam Henson went along to give her some tips. Now Adam returns to the heart of the stunning Snowdonia landscape to see how Caryl has been coping on the farm. He gets the chance to help her move a flock of sheep up a mountain for the first time in 25 years 鈥� and hears about her mixed feelings now that her scholarship is coming to an end.

Bees are a vital part of arable farming in the UK. But has a ban on pesticides called neonicotinoids, which was set up to protect these pollinators, made life harder for British farmers? Tom Heap discovers that, after using seeds coated in insecticide, many are now being forced to go back to spraying alone. The National Farmers鈥� Union says it鈥檚 needlessly giving farmers more work and is far from convinced that neonicotinoids are harming bees at all. Tom asks whether, a year on, the evidence to support the ban is any stronger 鈥� and discovers that there鈥檚 no way of measuring if it has been a success.

The longest continuous incline in England will come alive when the Tour de France comes to West Yorkshire. The Cragg Vale Hill Climb is 272 metres long, but local cyclist Jane O鈥橬eill is more than up to the challenge. Jane has been cycling up Cragg Vale for many years and her enthusiasm, and excitement about the tour, has also inspired her to create some works of art. John meets Jane at the top of Cragg Vale to find out all about the trials and tribulations of the climb. He then visits Jane鈥檚 studio to see how the landscape and the tour have come together in her artworks.

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