Green In The Media 29th June - 5th July

Highlight this week is Tracy Worcester's investigation into the pig breeding industry, Pig Business. Will it turn me vegetarian?

Monday 29th June

Grand Designs
On: more4
Time: 23:05 to 00:10
Kelly and Masoko Neville set about building a spectacular oak framed and straw baled hexagonal house in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Kelly, a carpenter, had always dreamed of building an eco-friendly home that could provide a base for a new self-sufficient life where he and Masoko could produce their own food and energy from the land. Three years later, Kevin McCloud goes back to visit Kelly, Masoko and their young son Acer to see if they are managing to lead the idyllic self-sufficient life they so craved.

Tuesday 30th June

Pig Business
On: more4
Time: 22:00 to 23:40 (Also 0045)
Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester, a former actress and now Marchioness of Worcester, has campaigned for years for quality food, animal welfare and environmental protection through a revitalisation of rural economies. Pig Business is her four year exploration of intensive pig farming. She argues that intensive production systems can harm human and environmental health, and is pushing traditional farmers out of business. In the film, she travels from the UK to the US and Poland to meet local people who claim to have been adversely affected by the new industrial pig production methods, as well as leading politicians and environmental campaigner Robert Kennedy Junior. Worcester also confronts industrial farming executives with her findings and argues that supermarket labelling is not a reliable guide to where pork is actually sourced from.

Wednesday 1st July

The Wednesday Documentary
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 09:05 to 09:30 (Also 1305, 2005, 0105)
The Greening of The Deserts.
Areas of the Sahara desert are turning green. Is this due to more rainfall or better farming methods? Ayisha Yahya reports.

Thursday 2nd July

One Planet
On: BBC World Service Radio
Time: 10:30 to 11:00 (Also 1630, 2030, 0130)
The programme that explores the biggest issues in global development and the environment.

Live Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions
On: BBC Parliament
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 (Also 0100)
Live coverage of questions in the House of Commons to Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Hilary Benn and his ministerial team.

Sunday 5th July

Countryfile
On: BBC 1
Time: 19:00 to 20:00
John Craven investigates whether the way we breed Holstein cows is creating "milk machines".


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