John Craven’s ‘Final Wish’ Says More About Countryfile Than About Him

John Craven’s ‘Final Wish’ Says More About Countryfile Than About Him

When a broadcaster reaches a certain age, the coverage stops reporting what he says and starts rehearsing his eulogy. That is the quiet trick behind the wave of “final wish” headlines now trailing John Craven, the man who has walked British audiences through the countryside for longer than many of his viewers have been alive. The wish in question — a hilltop, a scattering of ashes, a return to the Yorkshire of his boyhood — is real, and rather l…