Country Life January 21 2015
Country Life January 21 2015 meets the super-commuters and interviews Sir Antonio Pappano.


This week in Country Life we celebrate the 800th anniversary of the promulgation of the Magna Carta and explore its influence on English law, we discover curious collective nouns for birds, we visit brown bears in the woods of Romania and we learn to cook with delicious black truffles.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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