Countryfile has been gracing our screens weekly for nearly a staggering four decades.
Providing audiences with an abundance of agriculture know how, the show has been raising the country’s most pressing rural issues.
This week’s episode will be celebrating the astonishing work the RNLI has been doing over the last two centuries.
But who is presenting Sunday’s important Countryfile episode with Matt Baker?
Read on to find out more about where in the UK the cast will be heading.
Countryfile has been raising the country’s most pressing rural issues ever since 1988, with Matt Baker taking the presenting reigns in 2009
This week the show will be heading down to Somerset to celebrate the RNLI’s 200th anniversary – but who will be hosting alongside Matt? (pictured: Volunteers at RNLI Minehead rescuing two young girls who had been swept out to see in 2019)
Who is presenting Countryfile with Matt Baker?
Hosting the celebratory episode for the RNLI’s astonishing 200 year anniversary is the show’s staple presenter Matt Baker.
The former Blue Peter host has been presenting the popular agriculture show since 2009.
However Matt won’t be ringing in the RNLI’s 200th anniversary alone, as he will be joined by Britain’s best athletes, farmers and more.
On Sunday night audiences can expect to see famed farmer, Adam Henson, world champion wheelchair racer, Samantha Kinghorn as well as presenter Joe Crowley on air.
Where is Countryfile heading this week?
To celebrate the RNLI’s 200th year of saving lives up and down the UK’s coastline, this week’s presenters are heading to Somerset and Cotswolds.
TV presenter and athlete Samantha Kinghorn will be going to the heart of West England with Matt to meet volunteers at Minehead’s RNLI station.
Whilst balancing their own busy schedules, these volunteers sacrifice their own spare time to help save the lives of others on unpredictable and precarious call-outs.
During their visit, fifth generation lifeboat volunteer Andrew Escott will reveal all about the Somerset station’s colourful past.
While chatting with Matt, Andrew is set to share how his great-great uncle led a heroic but dangerous rescue in 1941.
The stalwart Countryfile host will also be put through his paces by other RNLI volunteers at the station in a timed tractor and boat manoeuvre training exercise.
Samantha Kinghorn (pictured 2024) will be heading down to the heart of West England with Matt Baker to meet volunteers at Minehead’s RNLI station who regularly juggle their hectic schedules with saving the lives of others
Adam going to the Cotswolds to discover more about the UK’s very first livestock biobank (pictured 2018)
Fellow co-host Joe Crowley will be taking a look at the Internal Drainage Board and how they are being impacted by skyrocketing energy bills
Local RNLI volunteer and farmer Chris Webber will be giving co-host Samantha insight into how he juggles farm life and saving lives on the Somerset coast.
Farmer and author Adam will be making his way over to the Cotswolds in a bid to discover more about the UK’s very first livestock biobank – and how it will impact Britain’s rarest animals.
Changing the pace, Joe Crowley will be delving into Internal Drainage Boards and how the service protects around two million acres of low-lying land in the UK.
The critical public service is facing challenges beyond unpredictable storms – dreaded rising energy bills.
Countryfile will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7pm on March 10, 2024.
