Catherine Nixey

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366 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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On September the sixteenth, nineteen thirty nine, the magazine offered Golf, the game in wartime.

Britain offers two kinds of country life.

There is country life, the simple act of living in the country.

Then there is country life, an uppercase, upper class magazine that is related to country living.

It features a lot of cows and sheep.

To cover this, I spent a jolly morning chasing sheep around a field with a farmer.

The photographer, who I got the impression had chased a few too many sheep around country fields with farmers, didn't bother.

He said, we're never going to get them and stayed in the corner.

He was quite right.

Country Life the magazine is quite like Country Life the Thing.

It's also very different.

It features a lot of country houses and croquet lawns.

Country life is less a mere publication than an institution.

British novelists satirize it.

British landmarks are sold in it.

In nineteen fifteen Stonehenge was flogged in it for six thousand six hundred pounds, which is just over six hundred thousand in today's money.

British Royalty reads it, Charles is a fan, and the other British royal family, the Beckhams, rather like it too.

David apparently reads it from cover to cover each week.

It is, like the Royals, surprisingly popular.

Forty thousand buy it every week.

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