Up Country [14/03/1990]

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Up Country [14/03/1990] (Up Country)

North East Film Archive
Newcastle International Airport
14 Mar 1990
Sound

Some surprising finds turn up in the Tyne as the Eager Beaver sets sail for a chunky clean-up mission with a difference.

Following the privatisation drives of the 1980s Conservative government, England and Wales are the only countries in the world to have completely privatised water services nationwide. Some of the private companies who have bought the right to service British regions have, it's claimed, been unable to find the necessary funds to keep them clean, and so a patchwork of volunteers and locally-funded projects have been organised to tackle the problem. This film shows the very start of this decades-long battle for clean water in the United Kingdom.

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The Rural North East

Flesh-eating plants, blonde hedgehogs and other natural marvels await in the rural North East.

Charles Boden is a farmer's son who read English at Oxford University before becoming an agricultural journalist. Keen to capture what he saw as a vanishing way of life in rural England, he moved to Tyne Tees Television in 1985 to produce programmes about farming, nature and rural traditions in the region. He is best known for his film 'The Last Horseman' which followed a year in the life of the last farm in Britain to still use horse power instead of machinery.

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