The people and landscape of the Yorkshire Dales National Park will feature in two TV programmes and a film to be screened this year.

At 8pm on Thursday (February 23), the Dales will be highlighted in the second programme of the BBC1 'The Great British Countryside' series, which will be presented by Julia Bradbury and Hugh Dennis. It will feature a number of well-known National Park locations including Malham Cove and its limestone pavement, the awesome Gaping Gill cavern below Ingleborough and Hardraw Force.

Then, on Monday (February 27), the second series of the ITV programme The Dales is due to start at 8pm and will run for 12 weeks, covering another summer in the life of the Yorkshire Dales. 

It is once again hosted by celebrity Adrian Edmondson who revisits people he met in the first series in Swaledale and near Keighley and takes a look at different aspects of rural life in the National Park.

The National Park is also showcased the film ‘Lad: A Yorkshire Story’, which is about a National Park Ranger who mentors a teenager whose dad has died.

Producer Dan Hartley said: “I'm expecting to complete post-production by around May and I'm intending to host the premiere in the Yorkshire Dales and then tour the film throughout the 15 British national parks.”

The Dales also makes an appearance on the BBC 2 Britain’s Heritage Heroes with YDNPA trainees Josh Hull (23) and 22-year-old James Firth building a stone stile on Pen-y-ghent. They are undertaking a two-year internship through the Dales Countryside Trainee Scheme learning key countryside management skills.

Over the last 60+ years, the National Park has played host to a string of film and TV production companies wanting to use the special qualities of the beautiful landscape as a backdrop, the most recent being Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)’ and the latest version of Wuthering Heights.