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'I wake up and still can’t quite believe that I live here': Sophie Conran on her first house in the countryThe designer, cook and gardener Sophie Conran spent years looking for her dream home in the country before finding Salthrop Manor, the ideal place in Wiltshire. She spoke to Julie Harding.
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Reeta Chakrabarti: ‘Some journalists put themselves at the centre of the story. I don’t think you should’Lotte Brundle meets the BBC journalist to talk about her fascination with the painter Amrita Sher-Gil, her shopping addiction and writing her first novel.
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The home of the 'British Oskar Schindler', who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is for sale in BerkshireSir Nicholas Winton's courageous and heartbreaking story only came out when his wife discovered an old scrapbook at the house they built together.
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‘My surname can be an asset, but it can also be a frustration’: Zoë de Givenchy on her famous fashion in-laws and love of Monty DonThe designer speaks to Lotte Brundle about her Consuming Passions.
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Will Hosie: Are the blockbusters of Christopher Nolan the greatest artworks of our time?With 'The Odyssey', the director has not only made the film of the summer but perhaps that which best captures the anxieties of the 2020s.
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What is everyone talking about this week: Yikes! It's school-reunion season...For some, an opportunity to reconnect with old chums, is a fearful occasion during which old-school hierarchies rear their ugly heads. May the odds be in your favour.
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‘My wife inspired the whole thing’: Michael and Clare Morpurgo on the charity connecting children with the countryside and predestined loveLotte Brundle meets Michael and Clare Morpurgo to discuss love at first sight, the 50th anniversary of their countryside charity and Michael’s latest book.
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'I sent my husband to buy a dining table. He came back with a vast statue of a lady on a horse': Oka founder Sue Jones on her first house in the countrySue Jones, co-founder of the hugely successful interiors company Oka, on her beautifully secluded house in the country.
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These are a few of Sarah Corbett-Winder's favourite thingsThe fashion stylist and 'bonkers mother of three' talks to Amie Elizabeth White about Gucci, sausage dogs and scent. Illustrations by Bryony Fripp.
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‘I see a snail, and I feel no animosity towards it. I'm perfectly happy for it to continue being a snail without being on my plate’: George the Poet’s Consuming PassionsLotte Brundle chats to the spoken-word artist about his most memorable meal, starting his career aged 15 and swapping grime music for poetry.
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'I climbed trees, built treehouses and had a sandpit — bucolic bliss': Timothy Bentinck, better known as David from 'The Archers', on his first house in the countryThe actor Tim Bentinck grew up in an idyllic spot in the country, but he almost became a real-life farmer on the other side of the globe. He spoke to Julie Harding.
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Jim Chapman: ‘I once signed an autograph as Andrew Garfield by accident’The YouTuber and creative chats to Lotte Brundle about moving to the countryside, content creators today and why he doesn’t read his own press.
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Alan Titchmarsh: ‘Being from Yorkshire is akin to being English with knobs on’To celebrate this week's 'English Issue', six individuals reflect on what being English means to them. Last but not least, Country Life's very own Alan Titchmarsh.
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With Nothing Underneath's founder Pip Durell: ‘The Meghan Markle effect? That was crazy’Once a fashion assistant at Tatler making a measly ‘£12,000 a year’, Pip Durell is now the founder and CEO of With Nothing Underneath. Lotte Brundle meets her.
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Sir Tristram Hunt: 'Here is the brilliance, eccentricity, liberty and skill of the English’To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the director of the V&A Sir Tristram Hunt.
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John Simpson: ‘I’d narrowly escaped execution as a British army spy in republican West Belfast'To celebrate the release of our recent 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor.
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Floella, Baroness Benjamin: ‘66 years ago, this new world felt alien and harsh, but I grew to love the English's eccentricities and peculiarities'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is the Trinidadian-British actress and Liberal Democrat peer, Floella Benjamin.
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Sir John Major: ‘For all its frustrations, England is where I wish to live. I feel blessed to be British'To celebrate the release of this week's 'English Issue', Paula Minchin spoke to six individuals on what being English means to them. Today's is former prime minister The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH.
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Tom Parker Bowles: ‘The English art of the witty put down is unmatched’To celebrate this week's 'English Issue', six individuals reflect on what being English means to them. First up: Country Life's very own Tom Parker Bowles.
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Hugo Vickers: 'Wallis Simpson enjoyed being the King’s friend, but in no way did she want to become his wife, or to cause a major constitutional crisis'Why everything we've been told about ‘the woman who stole the King’ is wrong, by toyal biographer Hugo Vickers.
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Lady Anne Glenconner: ‘Princess Margaret and I were quite naughty then, Elizabeth always had an eye out for us’The Baroness and British socialite tells Lotte Brundle about growing up with Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, her tumultuous relationship with her late husband and being a ‘gay icon’ aged 93.
