Speechification

Developing speechification’s Christmas theme, here’s one of four 15-minute docs about Christmas preparations. This one was recorded on a famous goose farm in Worcestershire. It’s an unpretentious programme but you couldn’t find a better snapshot of Britain right now: food, class, labour, rural economics, immigration… It’s all here (and the farm’s matriarch sounds exactly like a posh French & Saunders character). Here’s an MP3 (and here’s an earlier episode - about a nativity play - that’ll make you cry: MP3).

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