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Richard Benson returns to help his family sell the farm he grew up on and finds a passionate connection with the .

Richard Benson returns to help his family sell the farm he grew up on and finds a passionate connection with the land and a way of life under threat. Apart from a two-page epilogue at the back of his book, Benson avoids any generalisations or statistics, keeping himself to the evocative details of his own and his family's memories. The Bensons have been farmers for generations, living off the Yorkshire soil, changing what they grew or kept to fit the times. Most recently, they concentrated on pigs. Five years ago, even they became economically unviable, and the Bensons were faced with a choice: sell the farm and the pigs and the land to pay their debts or go bankrupt.

Richard Benson's "The Farm" was the only book that I purchased that day. I was instantly intrigued by the photo . I was instantly intrigued by the photo on the cover, possibly because I have similar photos from my own childhood growing up on a farm. The memoir begins with Richard in London where he receives an early morning phone call from his father explaining that their farm in Yorkshire will have to be sold due to mounting debts on the farm. Throughout the book, Richard recounts daily, everyday tasks that took place on the farm, and beautifully explains the emotion, attachment and longing that people have for farming, and the way of life that accompanies it. Each chapter is simple, but beautifully nostalgic.

Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in the Yorkshire Wolds was . Read by Richard Stacey Producer: Jill Waters Abridged and directed by Jill Waters A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. Show less.

Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog. wonderful ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a n. bestseller Read by Richard Stacey Producer: Jill Waters Abridged and directed by Jill Waters A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

As a person who grew up on a Midwestern US farm, this book was especially touching in its description of an English family farm; the land, its inhabitants and the animals nurtured by them. Richard Benson gets it right.

When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a. .The Farm is his first book.

When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood that the Bensons had worked for generations.

Richard Benson, Richard Stacey. After 200 years of farming in Yorkshire, the Benson family has been forced to sell up. Like so many farmers, they found that modern economics make it impossible for the land to support them

Richard Benson, Richard Stacey. Like so many farmers, they found that modern economics make it impossible for the land to support them. While the farming way of life never came naturally to Richard Benson - a point that sent him running to London - he still feels the loss and returns to do what he can to help his father and brother find other ways to earn a living.

Written by Richard Benson, Audiobook narrated by Richard Stacey. After 200 years of farming in Yorkshire, the Benson family was forced to sell up. They found, like so many, that the land could no longer support them. While the farming way of life never came naturally to Richard Benson, a point that sent him running to London, he still feels his parents' loss and returns to do what he can to help. In The Farm he tells of his childhood, the changing landscape, and of how his family has adapted to a new life after being forced to give up their birthright.