When we started out, we didn’t dare dream it would lead to this: expanded rainforest, a beaver release, and rewilding at Balmoral, says the co-founder of Wild Card Joel Scott-Halkes
A 79-year-old pensioner who recently avoided prison for growing his own ‘weed’ has told how he was once chased by the FBI in a helicopter when they raided a 40-acre cannabis farm he ran in California.
The rhythms and rituals of rural life have seldom been conspicuous in British cinema. But in this feature from our August 2010 issue, Rob Young looks back to feature films of the 1960s and 70s, and to documentaries across the decades, and finds that traces of the ‘old, weird Britain’ can still be unearthed.