Where is Countryfile visiting this week and what time is it on BBC1?

What is on BBC Countryfile this week?

Matt Baker, Sean Fletcher and Margherita Taylor are in the Cairngorms, where Matt meets Tilly Smith and her herd of 150 reindeer. The reindeer roam wild and free and a team of scientists are studying their grazing habits to assess its impact on the environment.

Sean spends the day with ten-year-old Xander Johnson, who is part of a big effort to save one of the UK’s rarest insects – the pine hoverfly, found only in two places in the Cairngorms and under threat in both of them. Margherita learns all about mountain safety and smartphones should not be trusted out in the wild. She also hears from Amanda Thomson, an academic who is on a mission to preserve disappearing Scots words and whose work has inspired Marina Dennis, a crofter keen to preserve old crofting traditions and the language used to describe them.

Related content:

• Best walks in the Cairngorms
• Reindeer guide
• UK weather 2018: how the extreme weather has impacted on the countryside

And with Christmas just a week away, Adam Henson checks in on a couple of new arrivals who lend a very seasonal air to the farm, and Tom Heap investigates whether enough is being done to help the rural homeless when extreme weather hits.

What time is BBC Countryfile on TV

This week BBC Countryfile is on BBC One at 18:00 on Sunday 16 December 2018.