AIBU to want older, Country looking people to present Countryfile?

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It doesn't seem right to have young people in vest tops presenting it.

YABU

Why, OP?

What are "country looking people"?

i can't stand the presenters they annoy me for some reason so yes i agree with you op

Haha! I know what you mean but I disagree.

I like John Craven - but I'd like to see a farmers wife ( type ) in her 60's presenting it too - it's all young girls atm who'd look more at home presenting CBeebies.

As long as they are enthusiastic and knowledgable about the countryside then how does it matter

What should country people look like anyhow to fit your criteria.

Ruddy faced, apple cheeked, Aunt Sally types?

Exactly!

Yes, we need a apple-cheeked farmer's wife,wearing an apron perhaps?

Why've they put it on 2 hours early?

So the youngsters can watch it before bedtime, Blanche?

Oh I'd love that Jenny. I think I'll write into them.

They did used to have older presenters. They got rid of them in favour of bright young things. Here.

Country looking people

Op, watch reruns of 'The Darling Buds of May' on ITV3. It's like Countryfile for people who have no interest in rural affairs but who like ruddy-faced children in lovely floral pinafores.

I hope you don't mean Matt Baker? He's a proper country lad.

Tbh the older presenters used to bore me rigid.

I agree with you, op.

Good point Jenny, DH unhappy that he's missed it, I hate Grand Prix!

Matt Baker is a farmers son isn't he? One of the other blokes is a farmer, they have a weather bod on sometimes and Ellie Harris (I think) isn't exactly a wet behind the ears youngster (well, if she is then so am I )
My dairy farmer FIL doesn't complain about the female presenter anyway, he regularly comments on her having talent, brains and a pretty face!

And wtf is a country looking person?

It's Ma Larkin.

Ah, in that case I should go for the job...

When I lived in Lincolnshire the 'country looking' folk were the ones who were all each others' sisters' mothers' cousin.

Proper country folk don't have the time to be gallivanting around doing telly.
Too busy doing stuff, growing stuff, feeding stuff, fixing stuff, stepping in smelly stuff.
Wotsisname with the farm couldn't be off sallying forth to Scotland to buy a new Aberdeen Angus if he hadn't pressed his poor old dad into slave labour covering for him.