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Helen Skelton is at Kielder Water in Northumberland exploring the ways in which water shapes our lives. Here she meets Jonty Hall who is truly part of the lake’s history. As a boy he pushed the button to flood the reservoir when it was launched. He started it all, 36 years ago, and now he is in charge of the place!

Anita is celebrating countryside in the city and meets the local residents living around Woodberry Wetlands,Ìýa surprising wildlife oasis in the heart of London,Ìýwho share their love of this haven on their doorstep. Anita then catches up with a wildlife photographer who specialises in urban wildlife. ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ in 2016, Sam Hobson’s photographs of urban foxes in Bristol are now world famous. Anita and Sam take a walk around Woodberry Wetlands as Sam captures more portraits for his collection.

The beautiful Lower River Bann is one of Northern Ireland’s most important waterways, taking water from the mighty Lough Neagh out to the sea almost 40 miles away. Ellie joins Chris Scott and Robin Ruddock to undertake part of the Lower Bann Canoe Trail. While taking in the beauty and the wildlife Ellie also spots hints of the river’s past and stops off to meet Stephen Douglas from Waterways Ireland to see how the locks on the route are getting a facelift.

We all love to walk through picturesque landscapes and take in the beauty of a place. But do we really appreciate everything that we encounter?Ìý Joe Crowley is meeting an artist whose work gives passers by a different vision of the world around them. Anthony Garratt is a contemporary artist who’s become renowned for his large painted outdoor installations which sit as one with the landscape. Here in Snowdonia Joe will witness Anthony’s greatest challenge to date!

Anita Rani is in the heart of Wales visiting Surf Snowdonia, the world’s first commercial surf lake. Nestled in the Conwy river valley and fed by the ample rainwater that fills the nearby reservoirs, the owners’ vision was to preserve and protect the abundant wildlife and clean up a polluted landscape once dominated by a disused Aluminium processing plant. Working with Natural Resources Wales the site is now decontaminated and thriving again as a natural habitat. It is, as Anita discovers, now home to a large population of rare Lesser Horseshoe bats that live in the surrounding woodland.Ìý

Adam’s in Northern Ireland, on one of the UK’s biggest freshwater lakes, Lough Erne. He’s helping stockman, Andrew Gallagher as he moves cattle and sheep, but this is no ordinary job! There’s more than 150 pasture rich islands on this lake and farmers have been taking advantage of them for hundreds of years, moving livestock from island to island. So how will Adam fare shipping livestock across the lake in something called a cot? Ìý