Pastoral Prozac: How Britain’s ‘Countryfile’ Became the World’s Favorite Rural Screensaver
Countryfile: The BBC’s Rustic Sedative, Exported to a World Already Half-Asleep By the time the opening credits roll—mist over a buttercup meadow, a Labrador doing its best impression of a civic mascot—roughly 82 million people outside the United Kingdom have already seen something today that made them want to lie down in a field and…