Speakout Street Interviews 9

H = Hina     W1 = 1 woman etc.     M1 = 1st man etc.

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 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. 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, I enjoy camping.

M4:   I enjoy the countryside because I've lived there for about 37 years. And particularly I enjoy gardening - growing a lot of vegetables.

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 an animal lover. I'm a vegetarian as well.

W4:  I like wildlife and animals. 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 favourite animal.

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

M4:   I like 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 big cats. They're very graceful, they're very beautiful. And something- I’ve always just had a fascination with from an early age. 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.

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

M2:   Snakes and scorpions. 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. 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 animals such as that, I don't really like. I suppose because it’s the unknown. I just find it quite scary.