A look at the way the countryside has changed using archive film from people whose livelihood have depended on rural life.

There are lots of reasons people love Yorkshire, and in fact, some would argue that its picture-postcard landscapes and charming rural villages put the region at the top of the list. Artists, painters, musicians, and poets have all been inspired by the country. Here in a selection of features, amateur films show the beauty and bounty the countryside has to offer. Post-war mechanization changed many aspects of the farming industry and rural life, but tradition lives on with the hands-on craftmanship of drystone walling and hedge laying distinctive to the Yorkshire countryside. Also featured is renowned craftsman Robert Thompson, best known for his trademark mouse. Early in his carving career a fellow carver remarked, "We are as poor as church mice." which inspired the first carving. Thompson observed that the mouse chews away at the hardwood unnoticed, and this became a fitting symbol for, "industry in a quiet place" remembering that for a long-time ecclesiastical work was his main trade.

A look at the way the countryside has changed over the past 100 years using archive film from people whose livelihood have depended on rural life. Featured is a Yorkshire Wolds farm, including harvest time, the war years when Land Girls were brought in to maintain the food supply and the annual Boxing Day shoot. Another feature looks at the annual cycle of the Beever Fox hunt and the Manthorpe point to point. Also featured are the vanishing rural crafts of hedge laying, sheep shearing and drystone walling. There's a trip to the village Fete at Kenwick Hall in Lincolnshire in 1953, a portrait of the Kilburn Craftsman Robert Thompson as the carpenters work flat out to repair church fabric ruined in the second World War. The final feature in the programme is of the Rothwell Ramblers group - a walkers group set up in the 1960s to protect the footpaths around Leeds.