Farmers and Furious

Seriously...

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Following wide ranging farmers' protests across Europe, now British farmers are starting to show their discontent with thousands of farmers meeting in Wales, as well as protests taking place in England.

BBC Radio 4 Farming Today's Charlotte Smith joins farmers as they are protesting and asks if the industry is now at breaking point.

Will the new promise by the prime minister to ensure food production is supported, and not just environmental work, be enough to appease English farmers? And has the Welsh First Minister's comments that farmers can not simply decide themselves what to do with millions in subsidies, just inflamed the situation further?

With so many demands on our land, from capturing carbon to reversing the biodiversity loss, is there still space for farmers to produce food profitably in the UK?

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. I haven't worked this land for people to come here and plant trees. We've worked our hands to the bone to get that land to produce food. It's our land and we produce the food.
1:11.0	We produce the phone. Farmers in Britain are taking to the streets with tractor convoys, mass meetings
1:19.5	and last week in Cardiff a protest outside the Welsh Parliament.
1:23.0	We will stick together, drive forward, and I'm going to be honest with you now, it's time for change.
1:31.0	Did gone, you did gone.
1:32.0	Enough is enough.
1:35.0	Speaking to the crowd was Gareth Wynne Jones, a Welsh Hill farmer and
1:39.4	youtuber.
1:40.4	He describes himself as the most followed farmer in the world.
1:44.0	But outside the Senate that day, he was in tears.
1:47.0	I've had a tough time, you know, been targeted over the last couple of weeks.
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