Countrywise is a British television series on ITV

ITV

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, in which broadcaster Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney has been a radio broadcaster or television reporter in the United Kingdom for over thirty years.-Early life:...

 and the team of reporters look at the best of Britain's coast and country, with contributions from the ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 regions. Quite often, the classical historian Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes is an English academic historian, author and broadcaster.Hughes' father is the actor Peter Hughes and her brother is the cricketer and journalist Simon Hughes...

 appears on the programme, when she is introduced as the "Countrywise Historian". The programme began a new series in December 2010 - Countrywise Kitchen, about foraging for food and food connected with different parts of the country. For example, the edition broadcast on December 10 2010 mentioned gathering mushrooms, and mentioned the cep

Cep

- Organizations :* Campaign for an English Parliament, a pressure group which seeks the establishment of a devolved English parliament* Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, a dicastery of the Roman Curia...

 mushroom. Celebrities who have appeared on the programme include Rachel de Thame

Rachel De Thame

Rachel De Thame is an English gardener and television presenter.-Biography:From age 10, De Thame studied ballet to a professional standard at the Royal Ballet School, White Lodge, Richmond Park. De Thame contracted glandular fever at age 15, and eventually chose to give up her dream of a dancing...

, who appeared on the programme on July 5, 2011.

Specials

Name	Air Date	Time aired
Countrwise at War	11 September 2010	7.00pm
Countrywise: The Real Downton Abbey Downton Abbey Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...	18 September 2011	6.00pm