Battle Grounds: Culture Wars in the Countryside - Vegans

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The British countryside is often portrayed as a green and pleasant land - a rural idyll. But under the surface, rural culture wars rage: the Right to Roam, veganism, rewilding. Anna Jones is a farmer’s daughter who has worked as a rural affairs journalist for almost 20 years. In this series she uncovers the personal stories of individuals caught up in these battle grounds. In this episode she meets Alistair Macbeth. In the 2010s he’s working as a touring fire-breather with long dreadlocks and living in a van. He’s also a committed vegan. So how did he go from that to running a dairy farm in the Peak District?

Presented by Anna Jones

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons and Anna Jones

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.0	All right there, fellow podcast lovers.
0:42.0	This is seriously from BBC. All right there, fellow podcast lovers.
0:42.6	This is seriously from BBC Radio 4,
0:46.2	and I'm your host, Vanessa Casile.
0:48.7	This podcast brings you true stories
0:50.9	for curious minds and wild imaginations. Get ready for something
0:55.8	intriguing, uplifting and seriously smart. When it comes to the countryside there are things it seems we need to believe.
1:07.0	That it's a green and pleasant land, a rural idl.
1:12.0	The word I would use is battleground.
1:15.0	Say, shame,
1:18.0	veganism, I despise it, biggest bunch of rubbish you ever here.
1:23.0	If that cow had a choice, it would choose to keep its baby with it.
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