The BBC World Service has a new radio documentary out soon called “Farm Swap.” The conceit is you take a farmer and you plonk him or her into a completely different farming situation. An Ecuadorian organic farmer goes to Hawaii and an English potato farmer goes to Eastern Europe, judging from the brief on-air adverts, but there are no details at all on the website yet. I’m not sure if this is a one-off or a series, but I hope the latter, as it sounds like fun. Especially if subsistence farmers are included, say maize farmers in Kenya and Mexico exchanging experiences, or coconut farmers in India and Ghana. Not enough of that goes on, I think. It would also be nice to see what a particular British allotment gardener would do in another milieu.
Swapping the Queen and Michelle O. that sound like a fun idea.