Countryfile

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Season 2023
52 episodes

Nature

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Long-running rural affairs magazine.

Dame Judi Dench Countryfile Special

Summary

Judi Dench joins Charlotte Smith in the grounds of Inveraray Castle to reflect on the impact the countryside has had on her and her family. She's also joined by her grandson Sam to check in on a tartan that's being created for her in which every thread tells a personal story. Adam Henson meets her partner David Mills, who gave up dairying to create the British Wildlife Centre on his Surrey farm, while wildlife film-maker Hamza Yassin helps her fulfil a lifetime ambition to see golden eagles in the wild

Review

Jane Rackham

A love of the countryside is possibly not the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Dame Judi Dench. Her fabulous acting career and mischievous sense of humour perhaps, but not a passion for wildlife, picnics, camping and the arts in rural communities.

No preview was available, but we hear that’s not the only surprise in this special edition of Countryfile. We also learn that it was her love of otters that introduced her to her farming partner David Mills and that her lifetime ambition is to see golden eagles flying in the wild — something that film-maker Hamza Yassin helps her achieve. She is also joined by her grandson Sam Williams to check on a tartan that is being created for her and is encouraged to put aside her favoured watercolours to paint a Scottish landscape in oils.