"Fire Is a Good Servant, But a Bad Enemy", as Radio 4 speaks to those actually on the ground fighting fires.

On Tuesday, a farmer in Rutland stopped his tractor in the middle of harvest to take a call from BBC Radio 4. In under four minutes, speaking to Winifred Robinson on You and Yours, he set out a clearer account of wildfire prevention than anything government has managed to publish this summer. Monty Andrews has been farming for more than sixty years. He was not representing a campaign group. He had…