Episode 1 - East Anglia: Penelope begins her journey with a trip to East Anglia. While there, she attends a regatta on the Norfolk Broads, takes to the skies over the village of Little Snoring, learns to speak like a native of the county and attends a fete complete with a performance by wheelbarrow display team the Red Sparrows. 

Episode 2 - North-West England and North Wales: In this episode, Penelope travels to the industrial heartlands of north-west England and north Wales, where she explores a Victorian garden in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, finds out about burgeoning tourism in Snowdonia, and goes to her first music festival. Episode 3 - South-West England: Penelope concludes her first trip with visits to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, where she sees villages that have been used on film and TV. These include the community where To the Manor Born was filmed, and the setting of Steven Spielberg s War Horse, Castle Combe, where she also discovers a motor racing circuit.

Episode 1 - Devon and Cornwall: Penelope is in Devon and Cornwall a land of rugged coastal communities and distinct identities. She finds out that ancient traditions are certainly 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. 

Episode 2 - Cumbria: The actress learns about life in the renowned landscape of Cumbria. From Morecambe Bay to the Pennines, Penny finds there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops. Along the way 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. 

Episode 3 - Royal Deeside: Penelope travels through Royal Deeside in Aberdeenshire, a land of enormous estates. Penelope visits the few villages that exist and explores how important Queen Victoria was in shaping modern Deeside.

Episode 1 - The Cotswolds Penelope visits the honey-coloured perfection of Bibury and attends a classic village fete in Ebrington. She takes in the arts and crafts home of William Morris, and meets the writer Jilly Cooper. 

Episode 2 - Argyll and Bute Amidst lochs and mountains, Penelope finds her most extreme village locations yet. From Vikings in Tarbert, to Queen Victoria s holidays, this complex coastline is her chance to indulge a love of ferries. 

Episode 3 - North Yorkshire Penelope travels through dales and flies over moors to the coast, in search of the famous Yorkshire spirit. On the way she finds sword dancing in Goathland, and the birthplace of aviation in Brompton-by-Sawdon. 

Episode 4 - Pembrokeshire Starting in refined Manorbier in the south, Penelope crosses the stunning Welsh peninsula. She explores the wild Preseli Hills, visits the country s best food market in St Dogmaels and finds Abereiddy home of international cliff diving.