Graham Harvey

Graham Harvey is best known as a scriptwriter and agricultural story editor for The Archers, penning more than 600 episodes over 34 years and earning himself the nickname ‘the other Minister for Farming’.

He has worked as a feature writer at Farmers Weekly and as a freelance journalist for a wide range of publications including the Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, New Scientist and Country Life. For four years he wrote the Old Muckspreader column in Private Eye. Graham’s first book, The Killing of the Countryside (Cape) won the BP Natural World Book Prize for environmental writing. Other books include The Forgiveness of Nature (Cape), We Want Real Food (Constable Robinson) and Grass-Fed Nation (Icon Books).
In 2008 Harvey co-founded the Oxford Real Farming Conference, which has become Britain’s leading conference on ecological agriculture.