John Craven

John Craven and the Countryfile Diaries team travel the length and breadth of the nation, celebrating the British winter in all its glory and diversity.

John Craven and the team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the stories behind autumn.

John Craven and the team unveil the stories behind an extraordinary season: summer.

John Craven and the Countryfile Spring Diaries team - Keeley Donovan, Jules Hudson and Margherita Taylor - unveil the secrets of spring. After the dark days of winter, spring is nature's alarm call to bring everything back to life. It seems to come round like clockwork, but is that really so? John and Keeley investigate what makes springtime weather so special.

This is a Sunday-morning television programme by the BBC which first aired in 1988 and reports on rural and environmental issues within the United Kingdom. It is presented primarily by John Craven, with reports from a pool of presenters. The issues which it addresses are generally those within the rural public consciousness of the UK, such as animal-culling, fox hunting, organic farming, EU agricultural policy, pollution, and open access land, and as such the nature of the programme is often highly political, sometimes airing debates between pressure groups. In recent years, the show has hardly featured farming issues, and concentrates on rural arts and sports, using recorded segments which are often repeated several times over a period of a year or two.