Farming Today irritates me a lot – and it would iritate me often if I listened to it often but its timing means I am usually finishing the first piece of work of the day prior to making the first cup of tea of the day. But sometimes, as with yesterday morning, I give it…
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Theresa Villiers’s Countryfile Live speech
Not much to quicken the pulse here https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/environment-secretarys-speech-at-countryfile-live-2019
Wild Justice and Countryfile
I wrote a blog for Wild Justice here.
Farming Today – a belated thank you
I’ve been meaning to write this short post for weeks. Regular and long-term readers of this blog may remember that I have had issues with Farming Today – the early morning BBC Radio 4 farming programme. See Farming Today – not today and not tomorrow, 16 October 2018. But those same regular readers of this…
Countryfile makes a comeback
It is worth watching the piece on moorland burning that went out on Countryfile last night. (Click here from 14mins – 25mins in) There are claims that the system designed to protect [blanket bog] is not fit for purpose https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002tww/countryfile-gloucestershire Well done to Guy Shrubsole and Friends of the Earth! That dossier of burning on…
Countryfile this evening
Burning of moorland, particularly the newly-invented ‘restoration burning’ of blanket bogs will feature on Countryfile this evening. The observations of burning of blanket bogs featured on this blog formed part of the dossier that was used by Guy Shrubsole and others and which will, I’m guessing, feature in the programme. The blurb for the programme…
Chris Packham talks about Wild Justice on Farming Today
Chris Packham was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning – listen here, 9mins in to programme. Wild Justice’s website is live – click here. Wild Justice has a Twitter handle: @wildjustice_org Wild Justice’s first press release – click here.
Farming Today – not today and not tomorrow
I rarely listen to Farming Today on the radio even though I am almost always awake when it airs (before 6am). That’s for two reasons – it’s my most productive time of day so I am usually writing something and the programme is so irritating (although, since I rarely listen (except when someone tells me…
Shoddy misportrayal by BBC Radio 4 – not for the first time.
The Radio 4 Today programme is making a habit of attending the Game Fair and it covered quite a lot of ground, some of it quite well, this morning. Well done to Georgia Locock for speaking up against intensive grouse shooting. Georgia, a first-year undergraduate, was put up against 33 year-old, experienced spokesperson for shooting,…
Blue Planet 2 – programme 3
Coral reefs – you can’t go wrong with coral reefs and I enjoyed this programme more than the two preceding ones. Why was that? I’m really not sure. Manta rays, spawning groupers, another grouper working with an octopus to catch their prey and saddleback clown fish. All terrific. And all potentially to be lost from…