I just caught Psnelope Keith’s programme about village life on more four, and feel compelled to have a rant. I can usually let such things slide, but I have to ask, what the smeg is Channel Four playing at, making such a cloying, conservative, short-sighted bit of tripe? While I have nothing against village life, the way in which Keith romanticises tradition and seems to yearn for some idyllic heyday when somehow everyone looked after everyone else and a benevolent local Lord cared for his subjects made me cringe. She contradictory professes to embrace change yet laments the passing of some bygone era. The entire programme was a jumble of cloying cliches; it was just an ego trip for Keith – Channel Four obviously just allowed her to make a program on her chosen subject, which, while it might seem sweet and innocent, has a form of repressive conservatism at its core. The whole thing really wound me up – I expect better from Channel Four.