Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan star in an original full-cast television episode specially adapted for audio. When Andy Dalziel attends the funeral of an old flame, Francesca Lock, little does he know the repercussions her death will bring. First, he receives a shocking letter from Fran in which she informs him that he is the father of Mark Lock, a DS in Andy's station. Then her name crops up in another context altogether. Local solicitor David Brewer is found murdered...
21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of essays, but a bit of all seven. It contains owls, badgers, ponies, beavers, otters, bats, bees, scarecrows, dogs, ghosts and yes...