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Foot and Mouth
Episode 3 of 5
Farming Today's Charlotte Smith ploughs the archive, harvesting the best stories from Radio 4's long-running show On Your Farm.
Charlotte Smith recalls the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001.
Drawing on past editions of BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm broadcast during that year, when the countryside was closed to the public, and the army were called in, she hears the distress of livestock farmers whose herds were slaughtered.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
Last on
Thu 28 Apr 201600:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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- Wed 27 Apr 201618:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 28 Apr 201600:30BBC Radio 4 Extra