Countryfile (TV Series 1988– )

Countryfile: With Adam Henson, John Craven, Matt Baker, Ellie Harrison. Series looking at people and stories with a rural theme.

“This program is laughed at within the UK for itu0026#39;s innocent view on agriculture and country lifestyle with deliberate omission of contentious and informative facts.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are little or no details on EU subsidies, finances of farmers, practises of husbandry, and land ownership.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIssues such as factory farming, social isolation and suicide, the relation between supermarkets, the economy and initial farming provision, rural racism, disease control and fox hunting are given a wide birth.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat might be an informative conduit between TV viewing city folk tax payers and the countryside is wasted on distractive and cute optimistic individual scenarios.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eClassic Sunday morning viewing for city people with a hangover who engage with the nostalgic frisson towards the main presenter.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFamous in the UK for his sanitised and wooden style of presenting a young persons news program in the 80u0026#39;s called u0026quot;John Cravens News Roundu0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNow he is continuing to sanitise and uninfrom, then grow old, like some bland antipathies to Sir David Attenborough.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJohn Craven, an entirely professional presenter who kept his head down professionally and was rewarded with this pensionable program continues to uniform.”