Countryfile: Cannock Chase

The team are in Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, where Julia Bradbury examines how volunteers are the key to managing the landscape that welcomes over two million people a year. She also visits Shugborough Hall, the ancestral seat of the Earl of Lichfield, to witness how the local council manage a stately home. Matt Baker celebrates the centenary of Staffordsire's council farms by joining first time farmers Giles and Emily at milking time. He also has a surprise for a farmer who first appeared on the programme as a teenager in 1995. Jules Hudson marks Remembrance Sunday by exploring the role that Cannock Chase played as a training ground for troops, while Tom Heap learns why an increasing number of organisations are using the public to gather and analyse informaton about the countryside. And Adam Henson reports from Ireland on one man's solution to growing fresh green fodder in all weathers