Countryfile: Easter - The Sights and Sounds of Spring

Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor visit Bisterne Estate in Hampshire’s Avon Valley, where farmland and water meadows provide a vital home for two classic signs of spring – the lapwing and the hare. They meet the farmers and conservationists working together to restore habitats for both species, while Matt records the sounds of spring with a local sound artist and joins volunteers caring for the historic Harnham Water Meadows.

Author Robert Macfarlane shares an exclusive spring reading, and on his Cotswolds farm, Adam Henson restores a traditional hedgerow, just in time for nesting birds.