The New Good Life

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The adventures of Barbara and Tom Good in Surbiton brought self-sufficiency to the small screens of the nation. Fifty years on from the airing of that first episode of The Good Life, Leyla Kazim is about to embark on her own sustainable living dream as she seeks to live off the land when she moves from London to Portugal.

So what lessons can she learn from The Goods about food production – whether that’s animal husbandry or growing-your-own? And will she succeed when she can’t even speak the language?

Leyla visits Groundswell, the Regenerative Agriculture Festival, in urgent search of advice. She speaks to Andy Cato from Wildfarmed, Rob Hopkins of the Transition Network and Helen Browning from the Soil Association. She also explores the forest garden of Martin Crawford in Devon as she plans her own food forest.

Produced by Robin Markwell for BBC Audio in Bristol.

Contains clips of The Good Life from Series 1, Episode 1 "Plough Your Own Furrow", Series 1 Episode 2 "Say Little Hen..." and Series 1 Episode 4 "Pig's Lib"

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0:52.2	Okay, Matt, so we have got the chart in front of us, which is all of the stuff that we
0:58.7	need to do before we move, which is making me feel a bit stressed. How are we on this list, Matt?
1:06.3	What are you working on at the minute? At the moment, trying to cancel the internet, TV, council tax, utilities.
1:14.3	My life has gone a little bit crazy.
1:16.6	descriptions that might be around that I've forgotten about. I've booked the removals.
1:21.6	That's confirmed, but we still need to send them a list of the inventory.
1:26.7	My name is Leila Kazim and a few years ago, my husband, Matt and I made a huge life-changing decision that is now finally happening.
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