Country Life April 22 2015
Country Life April 22 2015 interviews Jonathan Pryce and visits Elmore Court in Gloucestershire.


This week in Country Life we have dinner with Charles Spence, a psychologist set on revolutionising our meals, we report on the return of the old-fashioned maternity nurse, we pick this season’s prettiest floral fashions, we put the British flea under the microscope, we reveal collective nouns for marvellous mammals and we learn to cook with broccoli.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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