listened to

When Schimberg got this simple recording in his inbox and listened to it, “Immediately I knew that I had made the right choice,” the director says, “and that I was an idiot for even ever doubting him.”

I love them because people sufficiently passionate about their cause to trek to the capital and then make a public, almost certainly contentious, argument often deserve to be listened to and should be vigorously questioned too.

BBC Radio 2 is also the UK’s most listened to radio station, with a weekly audience of 13.3 million, according to the figures.

The latest figures from radio industry body Rajar state that Ball's programme is the most listened to breakfast show in the UK, with 6.3 million listeners.

Put them all together and there is a disillusion and a widespread sense among farmers of not being listened to.