Rural life
Arts & Ideas. Reflecting Rural Life. Audio, 44 minutes
Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Wildlife. Video, 98 minutes
Fourteen-year-old Joe Brinson moves with his mother and father to a small town in Montana.
- AttributionBBC Two
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In Our Time. John Clare. Audio, 48 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Essay. Between the Essays, Fugue. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael Umney with a poetic exploration of the countryside, farming and false nostalgia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Four Thought. The Pull of the Land. Audio, 15 minutes
Nick Ivins explains how the pull of the land turned him into a homesteader.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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A Point of View. How Should We Build? Audio, 10 minutes
Roger Scruton says we should prioritise beauty when building in the countryside.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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England: Made in the Middle. Episode 3. Audio, 15 minutes
Historian Helen Castor argues that the real garden of England is the Midlands - not Kent.
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Assignment. China's Family Planning Army. Audio, 27 minutes
China's once hated population police are being turned into child development specialists
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Assignment. Romania: The Shepherds’ Revolt. Audio, 23 minutes
The shepherds protesting over what they see as a threat to their traditional way of life
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Assignment. America’s Angry Cowboys. Audio, 23 minutes
The growing dispute over public land between America’s rural communities and government
- AttributionBBC World Service
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On Your Farm. Royal Special: Prince Charles on the Future of Rural Communities. Audio, 22 minutes
HRH the Prince of Wales shares his hopes and fears for the future of farming communities.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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On Your Farm. Urbanites in the countryside. Audio, 22 minutes
Two urbanites swap the glitz of the city for the hard work of the farm.
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FutureProofing. Can Civility Survive? Audio, 43 minutes
Mathematician Hannah Fry and guests look at whether civility can survive in the modern age
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Blind Man's Bete Noire. The Countryside. Audio, 15 minutes
Peter White and Janet Street-Porter explore one of his betes noires, the countryside.
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Tiugainn a Dhannsa. Video, 60 minutes
The place of village halls at the heart of communities across Scotland.
- AttributionBBC ALBA
- Available for 17 days
Crossing Continents. Sweden. Audio, 30 minutes
Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart of Sweden lives on in the modern age.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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In Our Time. The Enclosures of the 18th Century. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
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Assignment. India's 'new deal' for the poor. Audio, 22 minutes
A report on life in India's northern state of Rajistan and attempts to help the rural poor
- AttributionBBC World Service
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