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For the first report Anne Dawson visits the Rollright Stones, a bronze age stone circle on the Warwickshire and Oxfordshire border near Long Compton. The stones which regularly attract people interested in their supposed mystical powers, have been put up for sale with an asking price of £50,000. Anne talks to visitors including a man who is feeling energy from the stones, and John Cunningham who is trying to free trapped spirits. She also talks to estate agent Martin Elliot about the potential of the site, and to Stephen Boyce who has an organisation called Friends of the Stones who are hoping to buy them to ensure public access is retained. As well as the dowsers and mystics we also see an outdoor theatre production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ performed by Heartbreak Productions who are visiting from Leamington Spa. Interview with Maddy Carr from the theatre company, and some of the cast. We also see the current owner of the stones, Pauline Flicks watching the show.
Next Tony goes on a night walk with the naturalist Joe Hardman who is searching for glow worms. Joe explains how it is in fact a beetle and not a worm and we see glowing examples.
The next item is about the Post Office and village shop at Tissington in Derbyshire. Tony talks to Ian and Linda Alcock who run the business which is open seven days a week. They talk about the challenges they face with such long business hours. Ian is also the local postman, and we see him on his rounds and Linda working in the shop. Views of Tissington village. Brief library shots of the popular well dressing and the lord of the manor Sir Richard Fitzherbert.
The final item is about the problems caused by a rodent called the glis glis or edible dormouse which exists in the wild in an area of Buckinghamshire because the species was long ago released by Baron Walter Rothchild from his menagerie at Tring Park. Tony looks at the history behind the invasion (based on a 1989 Heart of the Country feature) and then meets glis-glis hunters Derek Read, Nigel Else and Conrad Birnie who are licenced to trap the rodents. Tony talks to Jackie Raiment and Nigel Haddon-Patten who are having problems with glis-glis invading their homes. Tony also sees a glis-glis in the wild in Hastow Woods and sees two around houses when accompanying the hunters. We end with dead glis-glis being delivered to Tring Museum for examination.
Camera: Alun Knott; Glen Armstrong; Dave Whitcutt; Steve Trinder
Sound: Alan Green; Mike Bird; Sean Taylor; Craig Barlow
VT Editors: Justin Eely; Peter Mason
Dubbing: Robin Ward
Research: Holly Tatham
Location Directors: Tony Francis; Anne Dawson
Series Producer: Tony Francis
Production number CEN/00938/0025