Farming Today This Week: Rural Affairs and Politics
Charlotte Smith chairs a panel debate about the relationship between politics and rural life, with extracts from interviews with spokespeople from the various political parties.
The general election is less than six weeks away. What bearing do the politicians in Westminster have on farming and rural life? Charlotte Smith talks to the agriculture spokespeople from the various political parties, and chairs a panel discussion about the relationship between politics and the countryside. On the panel: Helen Reeve, a young farmer in Norfolk; Andy Dean from the Rural Services Network; Alistair Driver, political editor of the Farmers Guardian.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.
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- Sat 28 Mar 201506:30BBC Radio 4
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