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Country Cousins

Country Cousins has returned to C-31 for its fourth season !!

Country Cousins is broadcast at 3-00 pm Tuesdays and
the program is repeated at 9-30 am Thursdays.

Country Cousins is produced by METRO-TV for C31.

Country Cousins can be seen through the C31 Winter Season - this is C31's Season No. 67.  

You can view Country Cousins on the C31 website - TV Now! - http://www.c31.org.au - click on "Our Shows" and then onto "C" on the alphabetic list provided. 

Country Cousins has a sub-title: Tales of Life in the Countryside. 

The program's focus is on rural living and is mostly filmed around the Warragul area (ranging from Narre Warren out toward the Latrobe Valley).

Country Cousins is made by Christine Webb and John Campbell for METRO-TV.

Country Cousins features the herbal knowledge of Christine who can often be found expounding the virtues of plants out in the paddocks of South Gippsland.  A local farmer was surprised recently when Christine and her film crew uncovered the possibilities within a large clump of milk thistle.

Country Cousins also features humorous interludes where Christine demonstrates the most amazing usage of herbs on her long-suffering friend, Helen, who puts up with herbal applications (what can be done with beetroot is marvellous!)

Country Cousins also covers stories of broad general interest, including health, building and environmental issues - as related to life in the countryside.

Country Cousins often visits a place or local person of interest.  We've explored a curious range of farm dams and old buildings in various stages of neglect, ruin or possible haunting!

Country Cousins has engaged with members of the local Aboriginal communities to hear their stories of earlier days, filmed in the very spots they talk about.

Country Cousins includes regular "Cock'n'Bull" segments where Christine chats with local identities and always manages to get a hair-raising farm story from them - often about bulls, roosters and snakes.

Last year, Country Cousins made a one-off special screened on C31 in a daytime slot but struck such a good response that C31 lost no time in re-screening it at evening peak viewing time.  This program was called Modern farming - Thrive or Survive and explored key issues facing dairy farmers, narrated by a husband and wife farming duo who resolved their predicament when the milk company drastically lowered their milk payments without warning.  Having researched all possibilities for diversification, they invested in raising chickens for the domestic food market in an environmentally desirable manner.

Would you like to get involved in making programs for television?

We're always keen to train people in any aspect of making a TV program.  See our Lifetime Page for details of how we approach training.

For Country Cousins, it would be great if you lived in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne or anywhere between there and the Warragul-Drouin area - or into the Latrobe Valley.  We have people involved from Churchill, from Berwick, Narre Warren and out toward Korumburra.

For direct contact, ring John Campbell at 5626-1554.  You can also contact John direct by email at twinpines@dcsi.net.au