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Will Sargent - journalist turned farmer

Anna Hill meets farmer Will Sargent, who left his journalistic career in London to come back to his family farm when his father was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

Anna Hill meets Will Sargent, who swapped a television camera and editing suite for combine harvesters and 50 thousand ducks. He explains how he left a busy London life as a journalist, to come back to the family farm, after his father was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. His extra-steep learning curve has given him a new appreciation of the countryside he was brought up in, and catapulted him and his young family into village life.

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  • Mon 6 May 201905:45

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