麻豆约拍

Many rural services are more expensive to run than urban ones, from buses to the village shop. Charlotte Smith speaks to people in the village of Stretton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire to discover what value countryside services have to the rest of society. Professor Wyn Grant from the University of Warwick and Reverend Barbara Clutton guide Charlotte through the costs of running a village.

Anna Hill visits Erpingham Primary School in Norfolk, which has just 14 pupils aged from five to 11 years old. Sarah Swadling props up the bar at a pub in Dorset which was resurrected by the locals. And Ruth Sanderson finds out about a scheme which provides mopeds for people to get to work in the countryside.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Weatherill.