BBC Two – Friday – 7pm Actor

Richard Wilson head to the north Cornish coast to follow routes that were popular in the motoring guides of the 1950s. He takes a VW Camper from St Ives to Lands End and learns of St Ives’s abstract art heyday along the way.

 

BBC One – Sunday – 7.30pm

Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury head for Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland to examine why strong tidal currents make it the perfect location for a tidal energy scheme. On his farm, Adam Henson prepares his rare breed animals to star in a film.

 

BBC Four – Sunday – 8pm

Poet and author Owen Sheers travels Stromness, Orkney, the home and backdrop for much of George Mackay Brown’s poetic work. Sheers also uses Brown’s poems as a tour guide, exploring the town’s narrow streets. Discover Orkney in issue 23 of Countryfile Magazine, on sale on 30 June. To be sure you don’t miss your copy, click here to take advantage of our great subscription offer. 

 

BBC Two – Monday – 8pm

Simon King, Kate Humble and Chris Packham return for a new series of Springwatch, and they’ll be joined by Gordon Buchanan and Martin Hughes-Games, as well as a new cast of wildlife characters. Kate, Chris and Martin will report from their base in Norfolk, Simon will be on a new mission in the wilds of Wales, and Gordon will be getting close to a large family of badgers in suburban Essex. Click here to read our exclusive interview with new Springwatch presenter Chris Packham.

 

ITV1 – Thursday – 7.30pm

Paul Heiney visits Northumberland to see a man-made lake named as the most tranquil spot in the country, while Rachel de Thame tours the grounds of Alnwick Castle and discovers a garden with a few secrets.

 

 

Radio 4 – Saturday – 6.07am

In the first episode of the new series, Clare Balding joins The Times' music critic Richard Morrison in Suffolk.

 

Radio 4 – Sunday – 6.35am

Lionel Kelleway heads to East Anglia marshland to get close to the largest of all the harriers, the marsh harrier.

 

Radio 4 – Monday – 5.45am

As increased UK veg production means more fields covered in plastic, Sarah Falkingham visits a grower in West Yorkshire who uses plastic covering to produce a crop every week of the year. But with only a handful of cleaning and recycling sites in the UK, the plastic is dumped in landfill after a few months of use.

 

Radio 4 – Tuesday – 11am

Many of our migrant songbirds, including the cuckoo, turtle dove and spotted flycatcher, are in decline. Brett Westwood finds out why.

 

Radio 4 – Thursday – 1.30pm

Tom Heap reports from the Carteret Islands, a small coral atoll in the South Pacific that is slowly being submerged by the rising sea, where the first large-scale human evacuation due to climate change is under way.