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In Buckinghamshire, Margherita Taylor meets a 71 year old who’s been without heating or hot water for three years. Why? Because, like millions of others in the UK, she’s trapped in fuel poverty. For this pensioner, it means surviving with minimal heat from an electric radiator, going without hot meals and wearing three layers of clothing every day.Ìý It’s affecting her health and severe asthma has put her into hospital three times.Ìý But Margherita discovers how we can all help our loved ones stay warm and safe throughout the winter with some help from the experts.

Jules Hudson is at the Royal Welsh winter show where the topÌý farm animals in Wales are strutting their stuff. But this is more than just a beauty parade as Jules finds out how the winners and losers in the show ring are dictated by our changing tastes and what goes on our dinner plates.Ìý

In the ancient New Forest – one of more than a hundred forests in the UK – Paul Martin gets a bird’s eye view from the top of a mighty beech to do a health check on our trees. And it’s not looking good.Ìý Disease is decimating our forests and woodlands and Paul’s on the trail of the culprits. Worryingly, we’re among them but there are simple measures we can all take to help to save one of our favourite landscape features.

Keeley Donovan is off to Northern Ireland’sÌýonly inhabited island, Rathlin, to discover just what it takes to get through a long winter. It’s not so long ago that electricity arrived from the mainland and sometimes storms stop the ferry, laden with supplies, from running.Ìý So how self-sufficient do you need to be? As islanders, all of us have survival built into our DNA but Keeley finds out that for these Islanders, it’s writ large. Multi-skilling, patience and being prepared for all eventualities are just some of the essentials for living on a tiny island.

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Ellie Harrison travels to the heart of the Cotswolds to meet Rose Buck, a woman who has devoted her life to studying bird behaviour and instincts. Ellie is introduced to her family of greylag geese and discovers the technique of ‘imprinting’ - a natural and instinctive form of learning. Then its Ellie’s turn to experience one of nature’s most recognisable sights and see first-hand one of the greatest wonders of the animal world.

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