Country Focus
Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079frs
- Description
- Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-07 08:06
- last episode published
- 2024-05-05 06:30
- publication frequency
- 16.41 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio Wales
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 158
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- News Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-05 | Connecting rural communities and cutting carbon emissions - a network of car clubs across rural Wales. Caroline Evans visits Llandrindod Wells to hear more.We explore Gwydyr Forest in the Conwy Valley where long-gone lead mines mean the area is now hom... |
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| 2024-04-28 | Air Ambulance - campaigners threaten legal action over plans to close air ambulances bases in WalesWe visit a heronry in Carmarthenshire to hear how their fairing after the British Trust for Ornithology reveals the latest findings from its long-runnin... |
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| 2024-04-21 | River Restoration - why the Church in Wales is involving itself in tackling the crisis facing Wales’ rivers and waterwaysTo celebrate World Curlew Day (21st April) we meet a visual artist in Montgomeryshire who compares the plight of the Curlew to that... |
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| 2024-04-14 | The right tree in the right place and how it could save lives in the city. We speak to an Urban Green Infrastructure Advisor for Natural Resources Wales on the need to plant more trees in in our towns and cities for people and the planet.Tiny forests... |
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| 2024-03-31 | The White Hart Inn in St Dogmaels has been part of the village for 250 years, so when last orders was called for the final time, villagers refused to accept the closure of their local. They joined forces to raise nearly £250,000 to buy it and nearly... |
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| 2024-03-17 | Scientists at Aberystwyth University have produced four new varieties of oats which have been approved for growing in the UK. We speak to the team leader about growing oats for the future.Time for a spring clean - we talk to a wildlife officer with RS... |
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| 2024-03-10 | A cross-party investigation into the Welsh rural economy calls for the re-establishment of a Rural Development Board and greater flexibility on the Sustainable Farming Scheme. Those were just two of a raft of recommendations made in the publication th... |
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| 2024-02-11 | Farmers and suppliers gathered in Carmarthen Mart this week amid growing uncertainty and concerns over the future farming policy for Wales, cuts to rural budgets and what they see as an attack on their way of life. Country Focus presenter, Caroline Ev... |
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| 2024-02-04 | Upland hill farmers fear for the future existence of their farm businesses in light of Welsh government’s scheme proposals.We visit Blas Farm - an organic vegetable farm on the Gwent Levels aiming to produce food in a sustainable way for the local comm... |
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| 2024-01-28 | Forget trees, perhaps the answer lies in the soil? Could fields be farmed to store more carbon? We speak to Dr Non Williams of the Welsh Soil project. Campaigners fear the closure of visitor centres at three beauty spots. Natural Resources Wales say ... |
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