Scripts

F = Finn; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.

Part 1

F: I like being in the countryside, but I’m always happy to come back to the city. How about you?

M1: I actually really love the countryside. I grew up on a farm.

W1: I love being in London. I have loved my time in London, but as I’m getting older, I increasingly want to visit the countryside more and more.

M2: It’s nice; it’s, it’s quiet – you know, you can forget about the city.

W2: I love it. I was brought up in the countryside.

M3: I love being in the countryside. I love the quiet; I love the fresh air. It’s great.

W3: I love being in the countryside. Um, I’ve come, I come from Hertfordshire, so, although it’s not … where I live isn’t actually directly in the countryside. If you drive for 10 minutes, you’re in it and it’s beautiful.

W4: I love the countryside. It’s a nice change to living in London and I enjoy taking weekends out. Um I enjoy camping.

M4: I enjoy the countryside because I’ve, I’ve lived there for about 37 years. And particularly I enjoyed (enjoy) gardening – growing a lot of vegetables.

Part 2

F: The thing I like most about being in the countryside is watching animals and birds. How about you? Do you like wildlife?

W1: Well, I am, er, an animal lover. Er, I’m a vegetarian as well.

W4: I like wildlife and animals. Er, since I was a little girl, I’ve always really liked foxes for some reason. And I know a lot of people don’t, but foxes have always been my favorite animal.

M1: I love wildlife. Er, I really, sort of, enjoy things that you don’t see every day – um … enjoy sort of very exotic wildlife that I haven’t seen before.

M4: I like, um, watching them on the telly.

W2: I think, I think animals are living beings and should be treated as so – should be treated with respect.

M3: I like, um, big cats. They’re very graceful; they’re very beautiful. Um, and um, something I’ve, I’ve always just had a fascination with from an early age. Er, I also quite like large snakes. A friend of mine used to keep them.

W3: My nephew and niece have a guinea pig, which I love.

Part 3

F: Are there any animals you’re frightened of?

M2: Snakes and scorpions. Um, just ’cause I know that usually one bite could mean that’s the end.

W3: I don’t like spiders. It’s not really an animal – but I hate spiders.

M1: I am very scared of spiders. Um, and even though in Australia, we get some very small but very dangerous spiders – I’m afraid of very big spiders.

M4: I don’t particularly like horses because they’re big, and they frighten our dog.

W1: I’m not really frightened of any animals. I love them all.

M3: There’s nothing that scares me – that I haven’t got any memories of animals scaring me as a child.

W4: I’m quite scared of sharks. I don’t really like the sea and so whales and um, animals such as that, I don’t really like. Um, I suppose because it’s the unknown, I just find it quite scary.