Landward

Season 19

Scotland's farming and countryside programme focusing on the issues affecting the community

Where to Watch Season 19

26 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1As the farming season gets under way, Dougie attends the annual spring show at Thainstone. Meanwhile, Cammy takes a trip to Arran to scan pregnant sheep.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2In this special Speyside episode, Dougie meets the man determined to save the famous Spey salmon, and Shahbaz sets out to climb Ben Rinnes, the area’s most prominent mountain.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Dougie is on the beautiful Isle of Lismore to see the impact that mink are having on wildlife. Meanwhile, Arlene is on Skye marking 100 years of community land ownership.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4A special episode about Scotland's national parks. Dougie is on Loch Lomond with the park rangers, while Rosie finds out the places bidding to become Scotland’s next national park.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5Dougie is near Dumfries visiting a nature-friendly farm during lambing. Meanwhile, Arlene is in Galloway to find out about the food box initiative giving locals greater access to locally grown food.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6In this episode, Dougie is at the spectacular Corrieshalloch Gorge in Wester Ross taking a walk through the improved trails and pathways. He finds out how the reserve manages to maintain its dramatic outstanding beauty despite the growing number of tourists visiting each year. Cammy is on the shores of Loch Ness on the trail of feral pigs that are damaging crofts and farmland in the area and attacking livestock. Arlene is also on a hunt, but she is on horseback taking part in a Fife bloodhound meet where the riders chase human runners. Anne is in the Cairngorms helping to release critically endangered pine hoverflies in order to help improve the forest ecosystem, while wildlife film-maker Libby Penman is at Aberdeen Harbour as she continues her search for city-dwelling wildlife.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7Dougie is on his mountain bike riding the trails at Glenlivet in Moray, while Rosie meets the scientists investigating the effects of medication in Scotland's river systems.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8Dougie visits Skye to find out what impact a million tourists could have this season, and Anne meets the couple who moved so that they could pursue their passion for crofting.
  • Episode 9
    E9
    Episode 9Dougie is at Dornoch Point to learn about the importance of protecting the salt marsh habitat as the climate changes. Meanwhile,Arlene meets a new entrant dairy farmer in south west Scotland.
  • Episode 10
    E10
    Episode 10Dougie is in the Borders to meet the winner of Sheep Farm of the Year, while Rosie is in Wester Ross as she hopes to hear a sound of the cuckoo’s call.
  • Episode 11
    E11
    Episode 11Dougie visits an Aberdeenshire farm that is monitoring ground-nesting waders during breeding season, while Rosie is in Ross-shire to see vast scale peatland restoration work.
  • Episode 12
    E12
    Episode 12Shahbaz meets the man protecting peregrine falcons from criminal gangs, while Dougie is helping put ewes and lambs out to their summer pasture on Cape Wrath in north west Scotland.
  • Royal Highland Show Special
    E13
    Royal Highland Show SpecialDougie and the team are at Ingliston for the Royal Highland Show, the premier fixture in Scotland's farming calendar and where exhibitors get to compete for the prestige of winning a red rosette. Rosie gets a ringside view of the cattle competitions as the best beef and dairy cattle battle it out. Meanwhile, Cammy is following all the action from the sheep rings. Ahead of the show, Arlene is in Dumfries-shire to see Hunter horses in training to get show-ready. And Anne steps out alongside the spectacular Grand Parade, a celebration of the best livestock in the land.
  • Episode 14
    E14
    Episode 14With harvest in full swing, Dougie visits a Fife arable farmer recognised as a ‘climate hero’ for using pioneering techniques to grow crops that are both profitable and sustainable. Meanwhile, Cammy joins a fellow farmer selling ewe lambs at Ayr auctions to find out how sheep trade prices are holding up this season, and Anne helps harvest flax in East Lothian and discovers how this old crop is finding a new look.
  • Episode 15
    E15
    Episode 15Dougie visits the spectacular Grey Mare’s Tail waterfall in the Southern Uplands. Cammy checks out the latest farm machinery innovations, and Arlene tunes into a remote radio station.
  • Episode 16
    E16
    Episode 16In this episode, Dougie grabs the bull by the horns in a special episode all about cattle. Across Scotland, the team celebrate the many ways in which we live and work alongside these magnificent beasts. Dougie is at Incheoch Farm near Alyth, watching bulls go up for sale at an on-site auction. Meanwhile, Cammy sets sail to the island of Swona in the Pentland Firth to catch a glimpse of a truly wild herd of cattle. Arlene meets the family near Forfar who helped to bring back native Aberdeen Angus from the brink of extinction. Anne is in Shetland, at Britain’s most northerly dairy farm, where she learns of one family’s fight to carry on producing milk. And Rosie is in Fife, meeting a herd of Highland cows that are the inspiration behind an author's crime fiction novels.
  • Episode 17
    E17
    Episode 17Dougie takes in the famous at Loch Katrine, credited as the birthplace of Scottish tourism. Cammy samples rye whisky in Fife and Shahbaz is discovered in the Angus glens.
  • Episode 18
    E18
    Episode 18Dougie visits the Claypits local nature reserve in Glasgow, a site transformed from wasteland to wildlife oasis. Rosie is in Fife to see a nursery growing trees for the future.
  • Episode 19
    E19
    Episode 19This time Dougie takes a solar powered trip on the first fully electric boat in the UK’s fishing fleet and Rosie meets the flower farming couple whose pretty crop is right on trend.
  • Episode 20
    E20
    Episode 20In a Halloween special, Dougie is in Galloway uncovering the real events that inspired Burns’s supernatural poem Tam O’ Shanter, while Rosie visits Scotland’s biggest pumpkin patch.
  • Episode 21
    E21
    Episode 21Dougie sets sail for Coll, and Cammy visits the abandoned Orkney island of Swona to find out why the last family left 50 years ago.
  • Episode 22
    E22
    Episode 22Dougie is in Garioch, Aberdeenshire, finding out why volcanic rock dust is being spread on the fields. Meanwhile, Rosie enjoys a day out at Perth Races to see the jockey hopefuls.
  • Episode 23
    E23
    Episode 23The team are in Moray for a special episode about Findhorn Bay. Dougie meets the river bailiff, while Rosie goes in search of the village that disappeared after a storm.
  • Episode 24
    E24
    Episode 24Dougie is taking a winter woodland walk in Lochaber to search for the UK’s Tree of the Year. Elsewhere, Shahbaz visits the farm where scientists measure sheep methane emissions.
  • Episode 25
    E25
    Episode 25Dougie plays a round at Kingarrock golf course and meets the flock grazing its greens. Meanwhile, Arlene hears how inheritance tax reforms may threaten family farms in the future.
  • Episode 26
    E26
    Episode 26Dougie takes a winter walk in Glen Affric to look back at highlights from 2024. And the winner of the BBC Scotland Local Food Hero Award is revealed.

 

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