Free Thinking 2013 - The Countryside
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4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2013
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Are our policy makers too urban in their outlook? Have we lost touch with nature? On stage at Free Thinking to debate the issue are: Dame Fiona Reynolds, former head of the National Trust; Simon Thurley, CEO of English Heritage and author of The Building of England and The Men from the Ministry; Jon Alexander, reformed ad-man and founder of the newcitizenship project; rural sociologist Professor Mark Shucksmith, Director of Newcastle University's Newcastle Institute of Social renewal and Canon Dagmar Winter, Rural Affairs Officer for the Diocese of Newcastle. Recorded on Sunday 27th October 2013 and chaired by Samira Ahmed in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival.
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| 0:25.5 | the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream. |
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| 0:32.1 | This is a special download from the BBC Free Thinking Festival. |
| 0:35.9 | For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.com.ukuk slash radio three. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome to Freethinking. |
| 0:50.3 | We're discussing the countryside and its control. |
| 0:53.7 | Who's in charge? |
| 0:55.1 | What is it for? |
| 0:56.4 | And who's is it anyway? |
| 0:58.3 | Well, my guest should know. |
| 0:59.9 | We're joined by Dame Fiona Reynolds till last year, |
| 1:02.6 | Director General of the National Trust. |
| 1:05.1 | Professor Mark Shucksmith, |
| 1:06.7 | Director of Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal at Newcastle University, |
| 1:11.1 | who's written extensively on rural development. |
| 1:14.4 | Kanan Dagmar Winter is the priest in charge of the upland parish of Kirk Welpington |
| 1:19.1 | near the Cheviot Hills and Rural Affairs Officer for the Diocese of Newcastle. |
| 1:24.3 | John Alexander describes himself as a reformed admin, now applying his skills to re-engaging |
| 1:30.3 | our interest in and understanding of nature. He's the founder of the New Citizenship Project, |
| 1:36.1 | and the Chief Executive of English Heritage, Simon Furley, whose book The Men from the Ministry |
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