Why Countryfile is the most political show on TV | Simon Jenkins

This is a programme that both celebrates country life and holds it to account. Now it has an 8 million-strong constituency – David Cameron, take note

Countryfile is my guilty secret. On a Sunday evening, when I want to sit back and not think too much, BBC1 offers me an hour of alternative reality. It offers a Britain that is beautiful yet real, hard-working yet leisured, a place without streets, housing estates or crowds, yet unmistakably British. Its star presenter, Adam Henson, does not lie...