‎Hidden Villages - Apple TV

EPISODE 1

Devon and Cornwall

Penelope is in the land of rugged coastal communities and cliff-edge fishing villages, but also of huge numbers of holiday makers. She visits the most exposed theatre in the country and Fowey Harbour.
EPISODE 2

Cumbria

The actress learns about life in the renowned landscape of Cumbria. The wonder of the Lake District cannot be ignored, but from Morecambe Bay to the Pennines, Penny finds there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops, and all of it owes a great deal to the dramatic local geography.
EPISODE 3

Royal Deeside

Penelope travels through Royal Deeside, a remote part of Aberdeenshire. It’s a land of enormous estates served by tiny communities. Penelope visits the few villages that exist and explores how important Queen Victoria was in shaping modern Deeside.
EPISODE 4

East Sussex and Kent

In the final episode of the series, Penelope is in East Sussex and Kent - a rural, unspoilt swath of the busy south-east that never ceases to surprise and impress. She finds a remarkable hidden village that hasn’t changed in almost a century, discovers the origins of the English Country Garden and sees a war memorial which was helped to be established by Rudyard Kipling.
EPISODE 1

The Cotswolds

What actually ARE the ‘Cotswolds’? Despite touring the area as a budding young Stratford actress in 1963, Penelope has never been sure about quite what defines this famous region. Starting in the celebrated ‘chocolate box’ village of Bibury, she sets off to reveal an unspoilt world of wealth - ancient and modern - created originally by sheep, wool and weaving.
EPISODE 2

Argyll and Bute

Accompanied by her Batsford Guide, Penelope’s journey starts with a ferry ride across Loch Fyne, to the Kintyre peninsula. Penelope learns about the local Viking saga, now heartily celebrated by the villagers of Tarbert, before venturing north to see how the Crinan Canal, with the help of a holidaying Queen Victoria, transformed life here and created Scotland’s most beautiful short cut.

Secrets of the National Trust With Alan Titchmarsh
Britain's Most Scenic Counties: Norfolk & Suffolk
Simon Reeve's Return to Cornwall
Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland
Ancient Tracks
Walking Britain's Roman Roads
Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs
Joanna Lumley's Britain