Up Country [30/05/1993]
From the collection of
Up Country [14/03/1990]
- Newcastle International Airport
- 1990-03-14
Up Country [30/05/1993] (Up Country)
Surprises in store for motorists in the North East as sneaky roadside artists leave their mark on the landscape.
An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country, presented by Jessica Holm. In this edition, a report on the Cormorant and the problems they have with local anglers who complain the birds are eating their fish stock. The next report from open moorland, part of Kielder Forest in Northumberland, and feral goats that live there. The third report looks at artworks that have been used to soften the impact of man on the landscape. Examples given are a sculpture on the Prudhoe bypass and a woodland near Corbridge, which for the Queen's silver jubilee planted wood to display 'E.R'. The final report comes from Blackhall Rock on the Durham coastline and explores the variety of plant life there.
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The Rural North East
Flesh-eating plants, blonde hedgehogs and other natural marvels await in the rural North East.
Charles Boden is a farmer's son who read English at Oxford University before becoming an agricultural journalist. Keen to capture what he saw as a vanishing way of life in rural England, he moved to Tyne Tees Television in 1985 to produce programmes about farming, nature and rural traditions in the region. He is best known for his film 'The Last Horseman' which followed a year in the life of the last farm in Britain to still use horse power instead of machinery.
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Up Country [14/03/1990]
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Up Country [21/03/1990]
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Up Country [30/05/1990]
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Up Country [26/04/1991]
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Up Country [14/06/1991]
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Up Country [17/07/1992]
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Up Country [24/07/1992]
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Up Country [30/05/1993]
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Up Country [18/07/1993]
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Up Country [25/07/1993]
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The Dales Diary [29/08/2000]
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