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A far better use of your time comes with , a documentary on how, to paraphrase Captain Jack from Torchwood, the 21st century is where it all changes — if you’re a farmer. The award-winning director Molly Dineen will probably bag another award for this — a beautifully illustrated documentary, shot around a couple of villages in the West Country. Here, as elsewhere in the UK, every country road is lined with gates rusted closed, as another farm goes out of business. Mirroring the subject matter, Dineen delicately interweaves her narrative — from the huntsmen to the dairy-farmers to the man on the “flesh run”, collecting dead calves for the hunt-dogs — as she shows how all life in the country is interwoven, too. Between the EU and the ban on hunting, farmland has effectively been “nationalised under our feet”, as the weary and impoverished Ian explains, wrestling with a pile of paperwork.
“Hunting, shooting, farming — we are splitting hairs. It’s all the same thing, really. The cow, the fox, the peewit, the skylark, the hare — we’re all in it together, getting on together, and we’ve got on very well for a very long time,” he says later. Then he gives out an odd yodel, and a herd of cows pours over a distant hill, and runs to him, like a pack of dogs. A very, very good documentary.
Finally, in , a pair of Posh & Becks lookalikes go to LA and blag all they can. Iain Lee, the presenter, looks embarrassed by the blagging, Posh & Becks look embarrassed by Lee. Avoid.
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