The Independent is celebrating the biggest TV moments of the year so far, from the ones that got the nation talking to the scenes that moved us or made us laugh. In a series of articles running this summer, insiders share the part they played in making them happen.
Clarkson’s Farm is a show known for its blokey banter, cute pigs, and the whinging of its host Jeremy Clarkson. It is not known for intimate displays of emotion. So it came as a shock to the show’s millions of fans when Clarkson chose the Prime farming series as the place to reveal that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.