In this episode, Vanessa Griffiths, deputy director of Sustainable Business at the Environment Agency leads a conversation on the future of the countryside with Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers Union; Mark Bridgeman, President of the Country Land & Business Association; Beccy Speight, Chief Executive for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; and Crispin Truman, Chief Executive of Campaign to Protect Rural England. Together they explore the solutions for a sustainable rural future, stress the value of the countryside and discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has made people think differently about the urban-rural divide. 

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