Countryfile 06/01/08

Subject: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:56 PM

Today's Countryfile TV programme was about Eccentric England, and had some good folkie bits in, including a piece on Haxey Hood:


Countryfile

this new "watch again for 7 days for free on your computer" service from the BBC is a bit good, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 06:01 PM

Indeed.

Subject: RE: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 06:32 PM

just finished watching...there's also Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling, Woolsack Racing at Tetbury (with a glimpse of morris), and the World Gurning Championships at Egremont (won, ludicrously, by Michaela Strachan).

Less folkie, but still bizarre, pursuits that were covered include pea-shooting championships and chicken racing.

Subject: RE: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: BB
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 05:28 PM

Thoroughly enjoyable programme.

When we heard it was going to be about eccentrics, we groaned and thought it probably wouldn't be worth watching. We now find we're of the sort that they find eccentric! Ah well, we should have known...

Barbara

Subject: RE: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 03:23 PM

The items were shown throughout the year.if you had actually watched the beginning of the programme or watched it during the year.


Scooby who was born in the Countryside.

Subject: RE: Countryfile 06/01/08
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 03:30 PM

Actually, I think the Michaela Strachan one is a few years old - it features in Richard Lewis's book The Magic Spring.