"Claims that exploration involves ruining the countryside are nonsense," he said.
The political transformation, launched in 1989, included the Polish countryside to The Rural Development Program, which involves the participation of local communities in the implementation of sustainable development policy.
Bill Bailey's Big Birdwatching Bonanza is a new gameshow which involves charging around the countryside with fellow celeb twitchers Alex Zane and Jeff Green in pursuit of barnacle geese, oystercatchers and greenshanks.
A quiet day in Queenstown involves dashing around the countryside in the Landcruiser with Ian, his unflappable 'executive shitkicker', who is fielding calls and rearranging Neill's schedule on his Psion organiser.
Four Weddings earned him a honeymoon of long holidays, sabbaticals to work on Comic Relief, and a television sitcom, The Vicar Of Dibley, for Dawn French, that again demonstrated this writer's unusual ability to combine the cutting edge - the issue of women priests in the C of E - with the cosy: Oxfordshire countryside, daffy Sloanes, ceremonies involving the blessing of farm animals.
The large space demanded populating the open world with wildlife; lead producer Leslie Benzies felt that "because of the scale of the map and the different kinds of areas involved, a countryside without animals would feel quite hollow".
More elaborate scouting has involved annual expeditions to the countryside of China at the start of every Chinese flu season.
His travel history included an uneventful 4-day trip to Melbourne, Australia, in 1999, involving a trip to the countryside, followed by a week in Bali.
A glance at their website indicates that their strategy for doing so involves organising litter picks in the countryside, hiking through the hills and voluntary sessions at an animal shelter.
He's here for less than 24 hours, slotting the shoot in between exhibitions in Europe, and so our 70-year-old pilot, Chris Puddy, whose work for Cotswold Flying School usually involves a meandering recce over the countryside, is under strict instructions to squeeze everything we can out of the flight.
