Telling to carry contents into the country (9)
I believe the answer is:
narration
'telling' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'carry contents into the country' is the wordplay.
'carry contents' becomes 'arr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'into' indicates putting letters inside.
'the country' becomes 'nation' ('nation' can be a synonym of 'country').
'arr' inserted within 'nation' is 'NARRATION'.
'to' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for narration that I've seen before include "Voice-over in film" , "telling" , "Process of storytelling" , "Spoken account" , "Story" .)