Our Great Yorkshire Life

Peter Wright visits a donkey sanctuary, where Donald and Alf, two rescued donkeys, are hopefully about to be rehomed if they can pass Peter's health check. Adam and Moira Domican-Gough from Ingleton share their experiences of living off-grid. In Horsforth, Leeds-born chef Matt Healy is on the cusp of realising his lifelong dream of opening his own restaurant in the town where he grew up.

Farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson are set to enjoy a day away from Cannon Hall Farm, they've planned a day of fossil hunting with amateur palaeontologist Brian Foster on Yorkshire's Jurassic coastline for their brother Richard. Plus, journalist Christa Ackroyd travels to Halifax in West Yorkshire to find out more about the life of the town's most famous heroine Anne Lister.

Florist Sarah Richardson prepares for the prestigious Harrogate Autumn Flower Show at Newby Hall. And in Knaresborough, the competition hots up for the annual town crier competition.

Peter Wright and wife Lin head to the Yorkshire Dales to meet potter Rachel Whitfield as they learn how to make their own tea mugs, and gamekeeper Ian sets about some controlled burning.

Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton heads up the highest mountain in Yorkshire to help rebuild a stile. In Dewsbury, luxury cat hotel managers prep a Vegas-themed day for three feline guests.

Discover how the world-famous Wensleydale cheese is made with Emmerdale actor Dean Andrews. Plus, the launch of a new tweed flat cap venture, and football comes back home to Yorkshire.

Rob and Dave Nicholson visit the home of celebrated diarist Anne Lister, aka Gentleman Jack. Plus, an ambitious restoration project on the 35-metre-high Keppel's Column nears completion.

Emmerdale's Dean Andrews takes Liam Fox to York to investigate the city's Roman past.

Peter and Lin Wright visit Malton, the county's gastro capital, and create a beer with Yorkshire puddings. In the Dales, off-grid couple Adam and Moira prepare a tea and cake kiosk.

In Dewsbury, Jo Ounsley, husband Phil and concierge Sally are preparing for the first-time visit of Bengal Romeo, whose owner is jetting off to the Maldives to celebrate her birthday. In Wakefield, model railway enthusiast Simon George is putting the finishing touches to his 200-foot-long replica of a 1.5 mile stretch of real track he remembers from his childhood in the 1980s. Journalist Christa Ackroyd visits the Wentworth Woodhouse stately home near Rotherham, which is twice as wide as Buckingham Palace and is the largest single house ever built for a private family in the whole of Europe. And the village of Crakehall is the location for a feisty competition when Jonathan Firby's team take on local rival Dickie Broach in a game of Quoits. The traditional northern game was popular among the Yorkshire mining communities in the 1880s and is now enjoining a resurgence.