West Yorkshire
Matt, Anita and Joe Crowley are in West Yorkshire where Matt meets Dr Ryad Alsous, a refugee from Syria whose love of bees has helped him forge a new life here.
Matt Baker, Anita Rani and Joe Crowley are in West Yorkshire where Matt meets Dr Ryad Alsous, a refugee from Syria whose love of bees has helped him forge a new life here. Matt also meets some of the refugees and locals Ryad is inspiring with his love of bees. Matt gets to try his hand at making a beehive and samples a delicious Syrian dessert made with the honey he helps Ryad harvest.
Anita is on the moors looking for the Easter bunny - or should that be Easter hare? She's on the hunt for the elusive mountain hare in its most northerly English habitat. Anita also meets Susan Sroka, a one woman hare rescue service who's been nursing a baby leveret back to health.
Joe explores Emily Bronte's passion for wildlife and finds out that she had her very own bird of prey.
Tom Heap looks at the reasons for the decline in our hedgehogs and Adam Henson buys some of the rarest native breed cattle there are, blue albions.
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The bee-keeper
Matt meets Dr Ryad Alsous, a man who鈥檚 using his passion for bees to inspire others.
An expert bee-keeper back in his home country of Syria, Ryad, together with his wife and children, fled the conflict in 2013.聽It meant leaving his 500 bee hives behind, as well as nearly all of his extended family.
But today, Ryad runs a bee-keeping course in Huddersfield called The Buzz Project. It teaches local refugees and job seekers how to keep bees and produce honey, whilst helping them learn English and find a place and purpose in the community.
Hedgehogs
Tom鈥檚 looking into the decline of one of our nation鈥檚 favourite animals: the hedgehog.聽Its numbers have dropped dramatically in the last 30 years and, perhaps surprisingly, the steepest decline is in the countryside.聽So what鈥檚 behind this 'population free-fall鈥�?
Easter hares
Anita is up on Marsden Moor on the trail of Easter bunnies鈥r what they originally were in legend: hares.
A symbol of new life associated with the Spring, hares are meant to be really active at this time of year and Tom Aspinall, from conservation group Moors for the Future, is often out and about photographing them.
But on a damp, foggy day on the wild moors - even with Tom鈥檚 help - can Anita catch a glimpse of an elusive mountain hare?
Emily and the merlin
Emily聽Bront毛聽聽wrote what is probably the best-known love letter to the Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights.
But 200 years since her birth, it鈥檚 emerged her connection to the moors and its wildlife go even deeper than previously known.
Joe meets filmmaker Kate Whiteford whose special project to mark Emily鈥檚 birthday explores the bond between author and the UK鈥檚 smallest bird of prey, a merlin.
Adam's farm
Adam is following in his father鈥檚 footsteps, doing his bit to save a rare breed of cattle.
A dual-purpose breed bred for both their beef and their milk, Albions were originally called the 鈥楤akewell Blues鈥�, developed in the 1920s to graze the hills of Derbyshire.
They鈥檙e renowned for having a calm temperament 鈥� which makes the vet鈥檚 job a lot easier when he comes to carry out a full health check on the pregnant cows.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Matt Baker |
| Presenter | Anita Rani |
| Presenter | Joe Crowley |
| Presenter | Adam Henson |
| Presenter | Tom Heap |
| Executive Producer | William Lyons |
| Series Producer | Joanna Brame |
