Dead Rabbit: 3. An Unspoken Suspect
7/17/202618 min
The killers strike again at a village shop, just a few miles away from where dead animals were dumped outside a school. And this time, it is far worse, with more than fifty hares piled up, blood smeared on the shop windows and birds impaled on the door handles. Local people are scared to talk about it - but slowly, Dan and Lucy realise that they know who is behind it.
Buried is the multi award-winning investigative podcast series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this series, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the wildlife presenter Chris Packham, whose own dead-animal death threats escalated into a car bomb outside his house. The dead animals lead them into uncovering a criminal underworld in the British countryside.
Dead Rabbit is a Smoke Trail Production for BBC Radio 4.
Produced and presented by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor Sound design, mixing and AP: Jarek Zaba Original music and sounds by Phil Channell Executive Producers: Philip Abrams and Anita Elash Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 1· Soundbite0:00
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Speaker 20:03
making outrageous demands for money.
Speaker 30:22
They wanted millions.
Speaker 20:23
It was high tech and high stakes. The country is under attack. And it was highly secretive until someone exposed it all. Cyberhack, season four, The Conti Files. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Speaker 40:38
Well, this is an adventure. I feel like we're in some kind of murder mystery or something.
Speaker 50:51
Lucy doesn't get out much, so apparently a sleepy English village on a Saturday night counts as exciting. It's very dark.
Chris Packham· Guest0:59
It's a very quiet little village as well, isn't it, on a Saturday night?
Speaker 51:02
Broughton in Hampshire is well-kept and well-meaning. Imagine thatched Tudor cottages, ivy growing on walls, Sunday nights spent wiping down hedge trimmers. Right now, there's not a soul about, apart from Lucy and Chris Packham, shambling around on the trail of another mystery mass animal slaughter. I can feel the curtains twitching.
Lucy Taylor· Host1:21
We pass a well that the village is so proud of it has its own ornate shelter. Yeah, it's a very sweet