Britain’s favourite farmer

"Dad used to call me a feckless environmentalist,” Hugh Crossley says warmly of his father, the 3rd Baron Somerleyton. “But he was a conservationist in his own way – he’s the reason we have good hedge

Born to a model mum and engineer dad, Amanda Owen had little to do with farming growing up – then it made her a reality TV star…

With 36 years in hunt service behind him, Robert McCarthy is one of the country’s most senior and most respected huntsmen. He talks to Tessa Waugh about Crufts, the current situation and life in Northumberland

Sir Jonathan Pryce once said he’d retire at 60, but at 78 he shows no signs of slowing down. And now he’s finally back in Wales, where he has always belonged

ince they were written almost a century ago, John Cowper Powys’s novels have lost none of their ability to amaze, inspire, horrify, perplex, and at times, disappoint. Although he liked to identify as

Several decades on from her primary school days, hand weaver and textile designer Llio James still remembers one particular lesson. She grew up in the small village of Talybont, close to Aberystwyth,