Rural life
Far from the Madding Crowd. Video, 114 minutes
Romantic drama adapted from the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, starring Carey Mulligan.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 22 days
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.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
Blind Man's Bete Noire. The Countryside. Audio, 15 minutes
Peter White and Janet Street-Porter explore one of his betes noires, the countryside.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Tamara Drewe. Video, 102 minutes
A once ugly duckling, now a beauty, causes a stir in the Dorset village where she grew up.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 15 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
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. The Enclosures of the 18th Century. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the enclosure movement that fenced in the British countryside.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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
- Available for over a year
How to Listen. Composers and the Countryside. Audio, 28 minutes
How the countryside and the rural ideal has inspired composers
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Borrowed Pasture. Video, 30 minutes
Two Polish soldiers struggle to make a living from a derelict farm in Wales. (1960)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
