Jason Goodwin: When gaucho chic in Dorset becomes something 'between instrument of torture and decommissioned nuclear reactor'
An attempt to bring a touch of gaucho chic to Dorset doesn't go well for our columnist.
An attempt to bring a touch of gaucho chic to Dorset doesn't go well for our columnist.
Arthur Parkinson marvels at the spectacular sheds of Stoney Road Allotments.
Our cultural columnist Athena on the challenges — the many challenges — for Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of the British Museum.
After six years leading Britain's largest farming union, Minette Batters talks life after the NFU and why MPs of all parties need to take farming more seriously.
The unmistakable sounds of the world coming awake after winter are enough to put a smile on our faces, even when the skies are still grey and the fields still damp.
On the eve of Easter, the Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy considers how asking ourselves a question to which we already know the answer, but which we may have forgotten, echoes the message of the Resurrection.
The tax-year calendar is not as arbitrary as it seems, with a history that dates back to the ancient Roman and is connected to major calendar reforms across Europe.
Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.
Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy joins James Fisher on the podcast to talk about life in the church — how he came to the profession in later life, what it was like being a priest in the pandemic, and his life as a writer and reverend.
Patrick Galbraith laments those who complain about the price of beer in pubs and and beef in butchers — the real value is in keeping a sense of place.
Phoebe Bath researches why exactly Easter is a called a 'moveable feast'.
Jamie Blackett files his final Farming Life column from the pink city in India, and reflects on how different cultures treat their methane-producing ruminants.
The RHS is best-known for its shows and gardens but it's the work behind the scenes which has made the biggest mark. Tiffany Daneff pays tribute to a remarkable institution as it reaches a major milestone.
Country Life's columnist Agromenes believes the tide of public opinion is turning against vegetarian and vegan alternative foods.
Our columnist Alan Titchmarsh reflects on 60 years of gardening.
The people who worked the patchwork farms of Ireland until just a few decades ago are all but gone, laments Jonathan Self.
Martin Fone on the brave men of the RNLI, and the tales of Louisa and Forrest Hall.
'There is beauty and there is poverty, order and corruption' — Carla Carlisle on Karen Blixen and Kenya.
Martin Fone talks about one of the great quirks of language which divide Britain and America.
On a dull February morning, John Lewis-Stempel is consumed by childhood memories of the allure of the seashore, from the rhythmic, cresting waves and slippery seaweed of all shapes and hues to the shell-studded sand.