Hidden Villages

Penelope is in Devon and Cornwall - a land of rugged coastal communities and distinct identities forged over centuries, but also a region visited by five million people each year. She finds ancient traditions are being kept alive and travels to a former silver mining village, a cliff-edge fishing village, the most exposed theatre in the country, and the small communities near Fowey Harbour.

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 more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops. She meets a community buying its local mountain, indulges in the unique Cumbrian pursuit of hound trailing and visits the home of Sticky Toffee Pudding.

Penelope travels through Royal Deeside, a remote part of Aberdeenshire. Penelope explores how important Queen Victoria was in shaping modern Deeside. She takes to the skies in a glider, visits the station built for Queen Victoria in the 1860s, goes to the Highland Games arena for the first time since the 1950s and discovers the secrets of the present Queen's vegetable patch at Balmoral.

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.