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    Meet the boss

    Dec 16, 2021 4 minutes
    Photos: Oliver Edwards

    Choosing a new series editor for Countryfile can’t be easy, but when Jane Lomas was chosen, just weeks before we went into Covid lockdown in 2020, the BBC must have been pleased to know the series was safely in her hands, because Jane is an eternal optimist and turns a potential problem into a creative challenge. While many other BBC programmes fell off air and fumbled around wondering how to cope, Countryfile didn’t miss a beat. Jane’s positive attitude to work and to life in general was very obvious during our walk and talk in the beautiful autumnal Bourton Combe woods in north Somerset.

    Q: We’ve come to walk in Flax Bourton because we both live not

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