English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can that history teach us about where food and farming go next?
In his latest book English Pastoral: An Inheritance James Rebanks provides an insiders account of the seismic changes to farming from the 1960s to the present day. Farming became brilliantly productive, he argues , but ecologically destructive. He explains how Cumbria's landscape was transformed by more intensive agriculture, and what we can do now to bring life back to the soil, to natural habitats and still the produce the food we need.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 1:00.5 | This week some unique insights into the past, present and future of food in Britain |
| 1:06.4 | with the Cumbrian Shepherd James Rebanks. |
| 1:09.3 | Sit, thank you. |
| 1:11.3 | Just giving some guidance to the... |
| 1:14.0 | I only say thank you to the dogs with a mother radio. |
| 1:16.0 | The rest of the time I have been told to use other words. |
| 1:18.0 | You're the politest shepherd in the world. |
| 1:20.0 | My wife laughs ahead of, she said, |
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