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Countryfile - 09/09/2007

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John Craven reports on the people and stories at the heart of the British countryside. In Kent, the hop harvest for beer brewing begins. Can this tradition survive the threat of foreign super-farms and our modern passion for lager? Juliet Morris investigates whether some wind farms are more efficient at making money for their operators than generating electricity for consumers. And in Cheshire, Charlotte Smith discovers the mysterious signals from deep space that are exciting astronomers at the Jodrell Bank radio telescope.