Dead Rabbit: 9. The Trial
7/17/202616 min
Dan and Lucy meet the man accused of leaving the dead animals outside the village shop, as new CCTV is released in court showing how brazen it was, and how quick.
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 follow a trail left after dozens of dead animals were left in villages in the British countryside. They 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 secondsDan Ashby· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:03
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Speaker 40:39
What if I don't finish this treatment and this cancer grows? But they didn't care. I'm dying laughing.
Speaker 30:45
making outrageous demands for money.
Lucy Taylor· Host0:47
They wanted millions.
Speaker 30:48
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.
Dan Ashby· Host1:04
Hey, just wondering how it's going and checking that no one's thrown a disemboweled pheasant into your face. I'm sending Lucy voice notes because she's in court and can't speak right now. We've had a big development. The police have charged a man in connection with the dead animals