Join us for an evening with journalist and broadcaster Anna Jones as she talks about her new book ‘Divide’, a call to action for town and country to make positive and lasting changes to benefit the environment.
‘Divide’ is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn to accept and respect our social, cultural and political differences as town and country people, we are never going to solve the chronic problems in our food system and environment.
As we stare down the barrel of climate change, only farmers – who manage two thirds of the UK’s landscape – working together with conservation groups can create a healthier food system and bring back nature in diverse abundance. But this fledgling progress is hindered and hamstrung by simplistic debates that still stoke conflict between conservative rural communities and the liberal green movement.
Each chapter, from Family and Politics to Animal Welfare and the Environment, explores a different aspect of the urban/rural disconnect, weaving case studies and research with Anna’s personal stories of growing up on a small, upland farm. There is a simple theme and a strong message running throughout the book – a plea to respect our differences, recognise each other’s strengths and work together to heal the land.
Anna Jones has been a journalist for 19 years. Before going freelance in 2018, she covered rural affairs at the BBC; directing BBC One’s Countryfile, producing and presenting Radio 4’s Farming Today, On Your Farm and Costing the Earth and reporting on agricultural issues for BBC News and the World Service. She writes for various publications, ranging from trade press to national newspapers and magazines. We’re delighted to welcome Anna to Booka for what should be an informative and though provoking event!
Tickets: £7 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Divide) or £17 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Divide). Tickets available from the bookshop or purchase online (with booking fee).