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Joan Bomford, BBC Countryfile's Farming Hero of 2015, has resided all her life in the lush, rolling countryside of the Vale of Evesham, where cows graze this inflatable water meadows of the River Avon and modern life seems far away. Farming is within Joan's blood. Years of her family have worked the land, and in Up with the Lark, Joan explains to us with friendliness, wit and great insight what it has been like to live through an era of such tremendous change. Now aged 83, Farmer Joan is still productive, making hay, feeding the farm's meat cattle, and operating the riding institution that she dreamed of as a child. An all natural storyteller, Joan Bomford, stocks many heartwarming and wonderful occurrences - like the elephant who emerged to remain and the gentle tricks played out on the evacuees who refused to eat her mother's rabbit stew. Yet her life is not one long rural idyll - Joan watched helplessly as her cattle were swept away in a sudden flood and observed the night time sky alight with the German bombing of Coventry - and latterly she's experienced to deal with family tragedy. Up with the Lark is a family portrait of a ignored era and a special event of the features that produce Joan Bomford an inspiration to us all: her love for the land, a love of family and a persistence to help make the the majority of life.