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LOVE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, 9PM, BBC2

IT MIGHT seem idyllic, but if you live and work in the heart of the British countryside, how on earth do you find love? In this new series, farmer’s daughter Sara Cox steers eight rural romantics as they embark on a mission to find a special someone to share their lives with. Over the next six weeks, they will invite potential partners to try their hand at rural living, but will they be ready to drop everything for life and love in pastures new? The eight (including Heather, Peter, Christine, Richard and Mark, pictured with Cox) have posted dating profiles online, and the first episode finds them reading the responses they have

received.