Anna Hill has presented BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme since 1995.

She has reported on countryside issues ranging from the foot and mouth disease crisis to post-Brexit policy upheavals - interviewing industry leaders, prime ministers and even royalty.

The journalist, who lives in Norwich, said she wanted to thank "all the farmers who have talked to me during the last 30 years", adding: "I just feel really privileged that farmers are happy to talk to me and show me how they work - and it is really important that our listeners get to hear it from the field."

Norwich-based broadcaster Anna Hill is celebrating 30 years presenting BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme (Image: Matthew Thistlewood)

Ms Hill was brought up in Hampshire and attended a state boarding school in Dorset before studying American studies at the University of Kent - also spending a year in North Carolina.

After completing a post-graduate radio journalism course in London she worked as a news reporter for several local radio stations before joining Radio 4 as a newsreader........

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