this popular broadcaster, who has won large audiences in his brief two years before the microphone, forms one of the subjects in our new feature ' People who are Heard ' under the title of ' The Countryman ' on page 742. His books on the country and country things and problems have become as well known as Cobbett's ' Rural Rides '. Like Cobbett's sons, he was brought up in the country, where he ' learnt to ride, and hunt, and shoot, and fish, and look after cattle and sheep, and to work in the garden, and to feed the dog, and to go from village to village in the dark '. He has asked himself: Was this such a bad upbringing ? '