Heart of the Country Goes Wild

Latest Episodes

• Roadkill and Freshwater Mussels

  In the final programme of the series, Tony Francis reveals the dangers posed to wildlife by traffic, chats to fox-hunting enthusiasts in Leicestershire and provides a fascinating insight into the love life of the freshwater pear mussel following the discovery of a colony of the shellfish in a Shropshire river

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  Tony Francis enjoys the autumnal colours of Gloucestershire in November on a visit to the impressive tree collection at Westonbirt Arboretum and meets a couple of spider enthusiasts : John Partridge, who goes hunting for the eight-legged beasties in the crypt of Worcester Cathedral, and Paul Carpenter, Vice Chairman of the British Tarantula Society

• Mandarin Ducks, Dragonflies, Zander and Rainbow Trout

  Tony Francis reveals why feng-shui believers got it all wrong about the sex-mad mandarin duck, how a man overcame his allergy to dragonflies and why zander could be the new cod