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Global News - and it's all about chickens!
Even before COVID-19 landed we were enjoying media coverage, and after COVID-19 arrived interest in our hens soared, as eggs became a scarcity. Here’s where the charity, and our lovely hens, have popped up in the last few months:
On Good Friday we enjoyed a prime slot on BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours and a few days later we appeared with our lovely patron, Kate Humble, on her most recent Channel 5 series A Country Life for Half the Price featuring a lovely family of 11 who had moved from suburbia in Surrey to a rural idyll in Shropshire.
We appeared in The Economist, the USA Spectator magazine, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph (twice), the Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror which featured the hens Eastenders star, Jake Wood, who adopted 6 hens in November 2019. We even got a lovely mention in Vogue online and a generous donation of £150 from journalist Ross Aston, who wrote a piece about chickens and donated his commission payment. Thank you Ross, here’s the piece: https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/raising-chickens-home
The repeat of documentary The Private Life of Chickens featuring Jimmy Doherty on BBC4 was watched by many supporters, as well as my local village it seemed, and it was lovely to hear how many people commented that hens are not so bird-brained after all!
Finally, we sent our happy hen message to Russia with love when we featured on NTV, their state-run equivalent of Sky News. Russian presenter, Elizaveta, and cameraman, Boris, were enthralled by some BHWT ex-bats, and it was a pleasure to meet them.