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Wednesday 19 October 2016

Brexit: and the British countryside

There has been a lot of coverage over 'the future of the countryside' after Brexit:
Futures Forum: Brexit: and the future of farming
Futures Forum: Brexit: and the future of rural services in the South-West
Futures Forum: Brexit: and the future of the natural environment >>> submissions invited to parliamentary inquiry
Futures Forum: Brexit: and Dartmoor
Futures Forum: Brexit: and Making the Case for Rural
Futures Forum: Brexit: and making commitments to the countryside and the environment
Futures Forum: Brexit: and grasping a better future for the countryside

This evening, Costing the Earth looked at the issues:
BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, The British Countryside after Brexit

Interestingly, the series looked at this before the referendum:
BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, The Environment after Exit

Which was reviewed at the time by a couple of anti-BBC, pro-Brexit blogs: 
Is the BBC biased?: Costing the Earth: The Environment after Exit
BBC Environment programme flouts BBC impartiality rules | News-Watch

Was this evening's programme 'more balanced'?

The Woodland Trust
Catch Radio 4’s Costing the Earth today at 3.30pm and Wednesday 19th at 9pm: http://www.woodlandtru.st/ZVXDi
Brexit could bring about the most radical changes to the British countryside for forty years. Britain must come up with brand new policies on the subsidy of agriculture and the conservation of our landscapes and species. It's time to begin the debate over what our countryside should look like after Brexit.
The programme will feature our CEO, Beccy Speight, and Baroness Young speaking about what we want to see for UK woods and trees in a post-EU world.
The Woodland Trust - Timeline | Facebook

The British Countryside after Brexit
Costing the Earth
Tom Heap hears four radical visions for the future of the British countryside after Brexit. He's joined by Baroness Young, Chair of the Woodland Trust and former head of the Environment Agency and the RSPB, the writer and Guardian columnist George Monbiot, economist Michael Liebreich and by Welsh hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones.
Can they come up with a plan for the British landscape once the Common Agricultural Policy and European environmental legislation are consigned to history?

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