Giles Wood and Mary Killen (14:00)

The Gogglebox favourites have been entertaining viewers worldwide since 2015. Former townies, they swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Country Life: A story of Peaks and Troughs explores their Nutty Idlyll ("We call each other 'nutty' because we both consider the other to be a bit mad”)

Mary, a busy journalist, has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins.

The much-loved couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons into the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling towards a new contented country life.

In conversation with Sally Magnusson

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