Name: Parklife
Uploaded: 2023-03-25T04:45:18.000Z
Description: Parklife follows a range of remarkable characters who live and work in what is now England's biggest expanse of protected countryside - The Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks.

Parklife follows a range of remarkable characters who live and work in what is now England's biggest expanse of protected countryside - The Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks.

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At Bleak Bank farm, the Dawson family prepare their lambs for auction. It's the hound trail at Buttermere while the residents of Barbon in the Dales await the arrival of high-speed broadband.

Episode 1

The series filmed over the course of a year continues as craft mason and mountain rescuer Pete Roe tries to save a puppy that's fallen down a sinkhole near Wensleydale.

Episode 2

At Bleak Bank farm it's time to gather in the sheep. The Leyburn Brass Band prepare for a big show. And Trudy wants to revive Bootle by opening an estate agents.

Episode 3

In Swaledale, a man has gone missing in freezing temperatures. And it's the annual Halloween festival at Muncaster Castle.

Episode 4

Michelin-star chef Kevin Tickle goes foraging. Gamekeeper David prepares for a shoot in Wensleydale. There's also some potholing pensioners and a big race at Wetherby.

Episode 5

Day-Glo orange sheep, competing micro-breweries and a 950-metre ascent to the summit of Helvellyn are all part of what it's like to live and work in the countryside.

Episode 6

It's lambing season in the Dales. Gamekeeper Dave prepares for the start of the shooting season. And the owners of Britain's highest pub face a big decision.

Episode 7

There's a staffing crisis at Britain's highest pub. The library at Muncaster Castle need repairs. And Lake Warden Martin patrols Windermere, England's largest lake.

Episode 8

In this first episode of the second series, a range of outstanding individuals, both new and returning characters, reveal what it is like to live and work in what is collectively England's biggest expanse of protected countryside - The Yorkshire Dales and The Lake District National Parks.

In the Dales, John Dawson of Bleak Bank farm has been asked to judge at Egton Agricultural show near Whitby on the other side of Yorkshire ... leaving son William in sole charge of the farm for two full days.

At England's last remaining slate mine in Honister in The Lakes, owner Joe Weir is running out of time and slate. He has a twenty tonne order of Westmorland Green slate to ship out but his workshop is low on quality raw material to craft.

In The Lakes, hill farmer and award winning sheep breeder Arnold Lancaster needs to rebuild a dry stone wall, after his sheep break out of his farm and into a neighbouring farm.

Change is afoot in the Dales and Lakes. Windermere upland farmers Pete and Rona Webster are expanding - Rona is expecting their first child and as soon as she gives birth they are moving to Rona's childhood home in the Dales to take on a second farm from Rona's retiring dad.

In the Dales, train fireman Martyn Soames prepares The Dalesman steam train for one of the most scenic railway journeys in England.

Winter has come to The Dales and Lakes and John and William Dawson are suffering the worst of it at Bleak Bank farm.

The Yorkshire Dales is normally a place to find peace and quiet and Coverdale is one of the sleepiest of the Dales.

In Swaledale, one of the most remote parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Pete Roe has a problem.

Episode 9

At Bleak Bank farm near the Dales village of Clapham, William Dawson is in sole charge of lambing for the very first time.

Episode 10

In the first episode of the third series, we meet new and returning characters who live and work in England's biggest expanse of protected countryside - The Yorkshire Dales and The Lake District National Parks.

In the Lake District farmer Kevin Holliday is preparing for an auction that could make or break his year, while in the Dales agricultural show fanatic Mandy Banks chases the prize she covets most - the best Victoria Sandwich.

In today's show a couple who ditched suburbia to become Lake District farmers are on the brink of big changes while some plucky ponies help restore an iconic Cumbrian wood.

In Wensleydale a local farmer bids to become England's champion sheepdog triailer and a blacksmith crafts an ornate horn burner, but will her skills meet the farmer's expectations?

In the Lake District a steam engine obsessive hits a problem restoring a remarkable piece of Cumbrian industrial heritage and there's a race against time to launch a brand-new Dales' cheese.

The Dales' village of Kettlewell is preparing for the biggest event of the year - its annual scarecrow festival; while in the Lake District, David and Becca Corrie-Close are settling into their new farm, and a delivery of new cows turns into a late-night drama.

Fisherman Stephen Perham shows what life is like in the perfectly preserved Devon coastal village of Clovelly. In Cornwall, Lynn Batten goes to work at the famous Minack Theatre.

A look at one of the last pony farming families on Dartmoor. Two adventurers climb Black Church Rock. And ex miners celebrate their shared Cornish heritage in song.

In Mylor Creek, it's a floating restaurant's opening night. In Lansallos, a team of volunteers help to clean the rubbish inside the coves. Dartmoor sheep farmers prepare for Devon's Widecombe fair.

In Brixham, trawlerman Dave sets off to sea. On Bodmin Moor, a young couple are determined to make a go of their dairy farm. And horseback farmers prepare to sell their ponies.

In north Devon it's the Clovelly Lobster Festival. Torquay's harbourmaster awaits the world's largest residential cruise ship. And a display pilot takes to the air over St Mawes.

n St Michael's Mount, winter is coming; a Cornwall potato farmer makes bespoke gin; there's wild camping on Dartmoor; plus a search for blue sharks off the Isles of Scilly

Charlotte returns to the Isles of Scilly - her place of birth as the islands' new midwife. There's also ice cream, charcoal and a trip to a steam rally in a 1928 Morris Cowley.

A vineyard owner plans to draw winter tourists to Scilly. Devon boat builders turn a clinker into a lugger. Unwanted apples make money. And a geologist goes fossil hunting.

In the first episode of the new series, we meet Cornish fisherman Phil Trebilcock, who heads out to sea in a bid to find lobster and crab.

In Parklife, we meet the people who believe there's no better place to be.

In Parklife, we meet some people who just can't imagine living anywhere else but this beautiful corner of the British Isles.

In Parklife, we meet the people who can't imagine living anywhere else but in this beautiful corner of England.

In this special episode of Parkilife, we're all at sea, meeting the people who live and work along the beautiful and rugged coastline.

In Parklife, we're meeting the people who build their lives in this beautiful corner of Britain.

In Parklife, we meet the people who choose to live and work in one of Britain's loveliest places.

In Parklife, there's a chance to share the lives of the people who live and work in this beautiful corner of Britain.

Shepherds Peter and Robert Bland gather their Herdwick sheep from the fell in Grasmere for pregnancy testing.

Sheep Farmers Peter and Robert Bland send their new lambs off onto the common in Grasmere.

In Grasmere, shepherds Peter and Robert Bland need all the help they can get, as they race to sheer a thousand sheep in a day.

Sheep Farmer Peter Bland takes his older ewes to market in Cockermouth. In Cracoe, Cathy Peel takes her children to an iconic memorial on the fell, to remember her grandfather who fell in World War Two.

In the last episode of the series, as the days grow shorter and the tourists head home, those who live and work remain as busy as ever, and Christmas is truly special time to spend in this beautiful corner of the UK.

Christmas Special

In Parklife, we meet the people who believe that their corner of the country is the best of British.

Episode Two of Parklife follows wheelwright Greg Rowland and his team as they take on one of their trickiest jobs to date - repairing a Victorian era bicycle.

Episode Three of Parklife follows steam-engine enthusiast Jack Ayland as he embarks on an ambitious coast-to-coast journey across Devon in a vintage vehicle.

In this episode of Parklife, the beautiful Isle of Scilly are the first port of call. On the island of St Martin's, Val Thomas and husband Graham have run a vineyard for more than a quarter of a century.

In Episode Five Parklife, enterprising Cornishman Jack Baines is hoping to turn fields of colourful flowers into liquid gold.

In Episode Six, we meet Emma Collison on Bodmin Moor who looks after a woolly herd of animals more suited to s outh America than south-west England.

In Episode Seven of Parklife, we meet fruit and veg farmers Wendy Murray and Andy Knight, who have a passion for growing the peculiar.

In this episode of the series, we follow friends Gary Aldington and Nick Spencer as they attempt to turn a passion for retro powerboats into racing glory and prizes.

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