BBC Countryfile Magazine

Ellie Harrison

“As the Black Lives Matter movement crescendoed across theworld, Countryfile tookthe decision to acknowledge it with a film presented by Dwayne Fields about racism in the countryside. The reaction on social media took the production team at least a week to unpick and respond to. I spooled through the comments, which broadly came in three flavours: “I’m not racist so there is no racism in the countryside”; “I’m black and

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