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Farmer Rides

  • John Murnane
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

Don't is this?

This counts as pop culture,

smile on my face

for the BBC Countryfile program,

and they got in touch,

because they knew

and I don't think Odiham

I think Benson and maybe Ableton

all these, these stations have a,

where the farmers or the landowners

If you only practice landing their fields,

And because I said the job of the going

and actually land on with them,

you really got to practice landing

and sectors as you can to, to, to practice

so all these stations have,

these the directories of the fields

What Odiham took to doing

with all the landowners

for one day of the year,

We'll fly you over, to

where your where your field is,

which is great. So,

the station commander at the time,

to the very top of the airforce.

He thought to himself.

Rightly so. I don't get much flying.

I'm going to do this one good bit of PR.

I can show off what the station does,

as the the the the,

the main figurehead for it.

all, all good stuff and I got picked to be

So I just joined a map to get rid of

We had 24 farmers

Down the back.

And, we bounced around from from field

Field.

and, you know, a jump

who I remember from being yay high

And there he was in what jump seat with me

He's still still on the air, I believe.

so, yeah, to have it's,

it's not a quite amazing pop

but to have John Craven bumping around

that what that was a day

That was.

And then having a Station Commander

with cows in the background, moving away

Odiham was do was was quite amusing.

So that was good. That was a good day.

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