Dead Rabbit: Trailer
7/13/20263 min
Why is someone leaving dozens of dead animals as a mafia-style warning in a village in Hampshire?
From the team behind Buried and Buried: The Last Witness, comes a new investigative documentary series, Dead Rabbit.
Husband and wife journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with Chris Packham to investigate why 20 dead animals were left at a village school – uncovering a criminal underworld in the British countryside.
Coming to BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from 20 July, 2026.
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsDan Ashby· Host0:00
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Speaker 30:03
He's widely recognised as one of the greatest footballers in history.
Speaker 20:10
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Speaker 30:22
Guess who we're talking about yet?
Speaker 20:24
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Lucy Taylor· Host0:35
Do you like horror stories? Well, this one is true. It started on a wet winter morning in 2024. I didn't hear anything happen at all. When a tiny village in Hampshire awoke to a message on the doorstep.
Speaker 51:06
I think probably about 20 carcasses.
Dan Ashby· Host1:09
Rabbits and hares, furs streaked with blood, a dead fox, its jaw half open, mangled pheasants, a deer, its head severed. All left outside a primary school. It was a mystery and nobody knew who did it or why.