Country Focus
Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news
Country Focus - 01/02/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 01/03/2009
Melanie Doel asks if we are what we eat in Wales...is our national dish curry or cawl?
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Country Focus - 01/06/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 01/08/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Rachael James goes Out of Africa in the hills of New Radnor, at Degmo, a nomadic Somali settlement.
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Country Focus - 01/11/2009
Mel Doel visits the Orkney Isles as she takes a look back in time to 300BC for a unique insight into the day-to-day lives of people five thousand years ago.
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Country Focus - 02/03/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 02/05/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 02/08/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Gilbert John meets the people of the Cothi Valley.
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Country Focus - 02/11/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 03/01/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 03/02/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 03/05/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 03/08/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 03/10/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 04/01/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 04/04/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 04/05/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Jon Gower celebrates one of nature's great spectacles on International Dawn Chorus Day.
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Country Focus - 04/07/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 04/10/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 05/04/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 05/07/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Finding out about foraging for wild food.
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Country Focus - 05/09/2010
The rural news magazine. Rachael James presents a discussion about the impact of public spending cuts on the rural economy and rural life.
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Country Focus - 05/10/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 05/12/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 06/01/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Presented by Mel Doel.
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Country Focus - 06/04/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 06/06/2010
Sian Pari Huws on the Clwydian range looking at the heather and hill forts project.
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Country Focus - 06/07/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 06/09/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 06/12/2009
Melanie Doel lets the train take the strain as she joins a group of 'rail ramblers'.
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Country Focus - 07/02/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 07/03/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 07/06/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 07/09/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 07/11/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 07/12/2008
The rural affairs magazine programme. Melanie Doel visits the 'Express Eventing' event at the Millennium Stadium.
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Country Focus - 08/02/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 08/03/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 08/06/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 08/08/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Rachael James learns some bushcraft skills.
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Country Focus - 08/11/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel visits Blaenavon in the South Wales Valleys.
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Country Focus - 09/01/2011
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 09/03/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 09/06/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 09/08/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel visits Bwlch Nant yr Arian - a conservation success story in Mid Wales.
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Country Focus - 09/11/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 10/01/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 10/02/2008
Sian Pari Huws presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 10/05/2009
Melanie Doel looks at the increasingly popular activity of 'gorge-walking' and its impact on the environment.
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Country Focus - 10/08/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. We visit an unusual place in the Vale of Glamorgan - Coedhills rural art space.
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Country Focus - 10/10/2010
Rachael James discovers how to market a market town - Llandovery.
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Country Focus - 11/01/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 11/04/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Mel Doel takes a tour of Chirk Castle.
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Country Focus - 11/05/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel goes in search of wild asparagus and compares it to the farmed variety.
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Country Focus - 11/07/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside with Rachael James.
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Country Focus - 11/10/2009
Melanie Doel asks if it's time to ban children from farms following another e-coli outbreak.
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Country Focus - 12/04/2009
In a special edition, Country Focus is in Ambridge! Mel Doel goes behind the scenes of radio soap The Archers, looking back over the years and catching up on the village gossip.
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Country Focus - 12/07/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 12/10/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. How flood defences are being repaired in Monmouthshire.
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Country Focus - 12/12/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 13/01/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Presented by Mel Doel.
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Country Focus - 13/04/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 13/06/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 13/07/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 13/09/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel looks at plans to reintroduce the beaver to the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 13/12/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 14/02/2010
Rural magazine with Melanie Doel. It's Valentine's Day, so Mel hears about the romantic tale of a saucy salmon and meets the warden of Flat Holm Island who is looking for romance.
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Country Focus - 14/03/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Mel Doel looks at the yew tree in history, folklore and the landscape.
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Country Focus - 14/06/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 14/09/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 14/11/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 14/12/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 15/02/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Pauline Smith finds out how the staff at Bodnant Gardens are preparing for their Spring opening.
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Country Focus - 15/03/2009
The programme visits a landfill site in Cardiff to find out what happens to our rubbish.
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Country Focus - 15/06/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 15/08/2010
The rural news magazine. Rachael James looks at three different types of dog which work in harmony with the land: hounds, gun dogs and sheepdogs.
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Country Focus - 15/11/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 16/01/2011
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 16/03/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 16/05/2010
Sian Pari Huws finds out how the village of Henllan near Denbigh is taking steps to protect the local bee population.
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Country Focus - 16/08/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel finds out about pig racing and the campaign to reduce clutter in our countryside.
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Country Focus - 16/11/2008
Farmers challenge the Rural Affairs Minister to eat just Welsh food for one week. Why not try naked barley bread from North Wales?
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Country Focus - 17/01/2010
Melanie Doel with the stories making the news in the Welsh countryside. Mel speaks to the chief vet for Wales about the planned cull for badgers in the fight against bovine TB.
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Country Focus - 17/02/2008
Rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 17/05/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 17/08/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 17/10/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 18/01/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 18/04/2010
Iolo ap Dafydd presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 18/05/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 18/07/2010
From the Royal Welsh Show, the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 18/10/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 19/04/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 19/07/2009
Country Focus is at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show at Llanelwedd, taking stock of the farming industry.
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Country Focus - 19/09/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 19/10/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 20/01/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 20/04/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 20/06/2010
Rachael James looks at the Welsh Assembly's ambitious plans to recycle 70 per cent of our rubbish.
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Country Focus - 20/07/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Direct from the Royal Welsh Show.
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Country Focus - 20/09/2009
Melanie Doel is at the Abergavenny Food Festival where she chairs a debate: Savile Row or Primark - which way for successful small food businesses?
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Country Focus - 20/12/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Mel Doel looks at wild deer in Wales.
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Country Focus - 21/02/2010
Melanie Doel tells the remarkable tale of a Welsh racehorse that came back from serious injury to win the Welsh Grand National.
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Country Focus - 21/03/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 21/06/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 21/09/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 21/11/2010
Rachael James tackles the problem of waste in one of Wales' most scenic counties, and the Pembrokeshire farm proving that clotted cream doesn't have to be Cornish.
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Country Focus - 21/12/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 22/02/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 22/03/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 22/06/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 22/08/2010
Rachael James presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside, which includes a look at Chinese lanterns and the price of bread.
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Country Focus - 22/11/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 23/01/2011
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 23/03/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 23/05/2010
New presenter Rachael James looks at the latest situation with the Welsh Assembly Government's planned badger cull in Pembrokeshire.
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Country Focus - 23/08/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 23/11/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel profiles Patrick Holden, the Director of the Soil Association.
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Country Focus - 24/01/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 24/02/2008
Mel Doel presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 24/05/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel goes on the trail of the otter.
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Country Focus - 24/08/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 24/10/2010
Rachael James looks at mushrooms, rural stress, dragon oak trees and the marsh fritillary.
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Country Focus - 25/01/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 25/04/2010
Gilbert John visits three Welsh villages taking part in the Village SOS project being run by the Big Lottery Fund and the BBC.
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Country Focus - 25/05/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 25/07/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 25/10/2009
Mel Doel looks at the issues facing gipsies and travellers in Wales - why do they choose their lifestyle? Should we provide them with homes?
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Country Focus - 26/04/2009
Mel Doel visits a Gwendraeth Valley farm and flourmill where Liz and Simon Hedges offer flour and bread-making courses.
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Country Focus - 26/07/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 26/09/2010
Rachael James on the heritage, history, environment and tourism of golf courses in Wales.
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Country Focus - 26/10/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 26/12/2010
Country Focus takes a look back at an eventful year in the countryside. Presenter Rachael James invites back Mel Doel to share together some of their highlights.
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Country Focus - 27/01/2008
Sian Pari Huws presents the rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 27/04/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 27/06/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 27/07/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 27/09/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Gilbert John looks at the third largest Welsh farm activity - the poultry industry.
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Country Focus - 27/12/2009
Melanie Doel takes a look back at the year in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 28/02/2010
How have those two symbols of Wales, the daffodil and the leek, fared in the recent cold weather? Will they be ready for St David's Day?
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Country Focus - 28/03/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Melanie Doel checks on the restoration work taking place on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.
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Country Focus - 28/06/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 28/09/2008
Mel Doel attends the Great British Cheese Festival at Cardiff Castle.
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Country Focus - 28/11/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 28/12/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 29/03/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 29/06/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 29/11/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 30/01/2011
Rachael Garside hears about the project to count kingfishers along the River Teifi.
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Country Focus - 30/03/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 30/05/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 30/08/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 30/11/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 30/12/2007
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside. Presented by Mel Doel.
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Country Focus - 31/01/2010
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 31/05/2009
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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Country Focus - 31/08/2008
The rural news magazine for those who live and work in the Welsh countryside.
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