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Adrian Edmondson meets Dave Tait from the Otley and Yorkshire Dales Dry Stone Walling team and is shown how to repair a part of one of the 5,000 miles of dry stone walls in the Dales. At Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, the estate's wedding co-ordinator Liz Bielby is busy preparing for her own marriage to fiance Andrew at St Mary's Church. In Skipton, Margaret Wooler opens her stunning garden to the public to raise money for the National Garden Scheme.

This shows features the centenary celebration dinner at The Boar’s Head at Ripley Castle. Ade manages to fulfil a life long dream when he gets to ride on the footplate of a steam train on the Settle to Carlisle railway line.

Ann Chapman gives a sermon by Lake Semerwater. The milk wagon pays a final visit to Carol and Phillip Mellin's farm. Amanda and Clive Owen and their five children look to see the summer in style at the Muker Show.

Adrian talks to the the staff at one of the Dales' newest microbreweries. He also visits Swinton Park Castle in Masham for the start of the grouse shooting season.

Adrian meets with Carol and Phillip Mellin as they end dairy production on their farm for good. He also takes a look around the Dalehead Veterinary Group in Settle. Malham blacksmith Annabelle Bradley completes the traditional chandeliers she has been making for her local pub.

Annabelle Bradley begins work on her latest commission. Adrian talks to a farmer who is hoping to win the Dales' toughest fell run.

Ann Chapman is the host of the annual `Party in the Parish'. Adrian talks to members of a North Yorkshire family who are competing at the Masham Steam Fair.

Phillip Mellin attempts to to set up a sheepdog training business. The George and Dragon hosts a Fijian festival. Izzy Lane photographs her latest fashion collection, produced using the wool from her rescued Wensleydale sheep.

The Leyburn Band competes in the Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest. Amanda Owen and her husband Clive update a shepherd's hut on their land. Adrian chats to the landlords of the area's first community-run pub.

Phillip Mellin travels to Skipton Auction Mart wanting to buy a dog he can train to help him with his shepherding duties. His mother Carol attempts to sell her own dog Jess. Tom Orde-Powlett starts a boar park at Bolton Castle in Wensleydale. Adrian talks to the Leyburn Band as it gets ready to take part in the Hardraw Scar Brass Band Contest.

Vicar Ann Chapman, who is in charge of four rural churches in the Dales, chats about her job. Adrian learns more about sheepdog training with Philip Mellin and his mother Carol. Izzy Lane and Ernest Ayre attempt to find a missing ram at a local sheep sanctuary.

Adrain chats to sixteen-year-old Phillip Mellin about having to run his family's farm with his mother, after his father died last year.

Ade begins his summer with a journey over the Dales in a helicopter. He stops at Ravenseat Farm where sheep farmers Clive and Amanda Owen live along with their five young children. He later spends the night in the Owens’s newly refurbished Shepherd’s Hut where Amanda uses the river as a place to cool the drinks.

Estate agent Brian Carlisle holds an open day at the Catrigg Force waterfall near Ribblesdale, hoping to attract potential buyers to the landmark. Plus, potholing enthusiasts Jude Onions and Johnny Latimer get married at Ingleborough cave, and Adrian Edmondson meets 10-year-old Daisy Watkiss, who hosts a weekly show on community station Drystone Radio.

Adrian Edmondson visits Kilnsey Show in Upper Wharfedale, where farmer Carol Mellin and her dog Maisie are taking part in the sheep dog trials. He also catches up with teenage shepherd William Wildman, who is competing with his sheep. At Masham Sheep Fair, Carol and her son Philip show their ducks and geese. Ade drops in on artist Helen Peyton, who gives him a lesson in drawing a Dales landscape, and follows her to Kilnsey, where she is judging the local photography exhibition.

Adrian Edmondson visits clothes designer Izzy Lane, who is searching for traditional Dales knitters to help her complete her collection. He also catches up with farming family the Wildmans, and meets the most nervous man in Wensleydale, Paul Sidebottom, who is planning a surprise marriage proposal to his girlfriend Pippa.

Adrian Edmondson explores the Dales from below as he joins caving expert Dave Gallivan underground near Horton-in-Ribblesdale. Ethical entrepreneur Izzy Lane takes on a new venture - she plans to rescue battery hens and hopes to use their eggs in a new food brand. How will she and her farming friend Ernest Ayre get on as the new feathery flock arrive in Richmond? During a break from trying to sell a Dales waterfall, estate agent Brian Carlisle tackles another watery challenge - training for an open water swim at Semerwater.

Adrian Edmondson meets racehorse trainer Simon West, the owner of Castle Stables, who talks about the challenges a small yard faces. Meanwhile, near Keighley, farmer Carol Mellin is getting ready to take part in the prestigious World Sheep Dog Trials in Cumbria, at which she will be representing England. Ade also meets Neil and Jane McNair, who turned their backs on London to buy and restore a disused watermill in the village of Banbridge in Wensleydale. Will their neighbours be pleased with the changes they have made to the mill and the surrounding area?

Adrian Edmondson presents the observational documentary series about a summer in the Yorkshire Dales. At Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, the Owen family are preparing for youngest son Miles's first day at school. Meanwhile, Dales estate agent Brian Carlisle takes on another role as auctioneer and, as summer draws to an end, vicar Anne Chapman holds a harvest festival for her parishioners.

Actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson returns to his birthplace of Yorkshire to document another summer in the life of the Dales. In the first edition, he spends a day working on Ravenseat Farm with the Owen family, and meets Angela Baker, the original `Miss February' in the world-famous Women's Institute calendar, as local theatrical group the Grassington Players prepare for the premiere of their Calendar Girls stage play.

Adrian Edmondson meets goat farmer Stephen Akrigg, who has plans to expand his herd and business over the summer, before turning his hand to livestock auctioneering in Hawes, North Yorkshire, under the guidance of Maurice Scott. Meanwhile, theatrical group the Grassington Players stage the premiere of their Calendar Girls production

Adrian Edmondson marks the 100th anniversary of Reeth Show in Swaledale, where 11-year-old Raven Owen is taking part in her first horse-riding competition, and farmers John, George and Albert Allison hope to win their late father's memorial trophy in its inaugural year. Ade also auditions for a part in the Grassington Players' latest production and learns about the theatrical group's role in the community.