Countryfile: Season 1, Episode 1

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In 1988 we take access to wide open spaces for granted. But the right to roam free was only won 50 years ago after a mass trespass in the North of England. This year canoeists have been staging similar demonstrations to win access to Britain's rivers. Ian Breach reports from Wales and Yorkshire on a dispute which is coming to a head this summer.
From Essex and the West Country, Anne Brown discovers a shortage of low-cost housing in our villages; and Roger Tabor investigates the suggestion that the domestic cat is a major threat to small wildlife.
Plus the week's most comprehensive weather forecast with Bill Giles