#61 - Anna Jones on the relationship crisis between town and country

04/17/22 • 42 min

Our guest this week is the journalist, broadcaster, author and Nuffield Farming Scholar, Anna Jones. Anna grew up on her family’s upland farm on the Welsh borders and is often heard on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme. Earlier this year she published her first book – Divide – and she joins us on the podcast to talk about the cultural divisions between rural and urban communities and why there has never been a better time to bridge that divide.

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Mae yna fentergarwch yn rhedeg trwy wythiennau Llŷr Jones o Fferm Derwydd ger Corwen. Mae’n un o’r ffermwyr hynny sydd ddim yn ofn mentro ac yn y bennod hon cawn glywed am yr holl fusnesau sydd ar waith gan gynnwys yr estyniad i’r busnes wyau, arallgyfeirio i gynnig safle campio gwyllt, ei daith anghoel i’r Wcráin yn ddiweddar a sut mae’r Academi Amaeth wedi cyfrannu at lwyddiant ei holl fusnesau.

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