John Burn-Murdoch

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196 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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Radical · Will British Farming Pay the Price for Rewilding? (Your Radical Questions with Derek Gow) · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

But if we can now move on to the next question, which comes in from Helen, who asks, Why does Derek think that people seem to be quite scared of the whole idea of rewilding?

Some people that seem very, very hesitant to the whole concept and hostile even to beavers, watervoles and stalk, let alone wolves.

Helen also asks, given that our food security is very fragile, how would you justify taking away land from conventional farming?

I I would say this and this is just my read of it, the question is maybe more asking why if

a majority of existing farmers aren't

Actively seeking to do what you're doing in Devon, what would need to change to get them to do that?

And if you then had the incentive changed and a lot of that conventional farmland used for rewilding and therefore the yields go down, wouldn't that threaten food security?

It comes back to this scale thing again.

If what you would love to happen did happen, wouldn't that?

than that.

Thank you, Helen.

Now this next question is from George Wallace, who sent us this voice note.

I guess the question then is how do you shift that up people's priority list?

Because I you know, people clearly do enjoy when they f feel that they're experiencing nature, but it never seems to be something they're clamoring from for their politicians, clamoring for from their politicians.

But you ask them what their

twenty polity policy priorities are and I don't think the white stocks will be on that.

So how would you

The next question is from Jane Bonser, who writes in Derek, if we want farmers and land managers to restore nature at scale, what should the economic model for that be?

Appeals to save nature might not be enough.

Farmers need to earn a living, so what should that look like?

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