A series in which Lake
District people tell their own life stories.
Hartsop Magic
Farming 1,700 acres below the Kirkstone Pass, Hartsop, Alan Wear loves the beauty and solitude of the high fells. Like most farmers he moans about mart prices and the weather but what really upsets him is bureaucracy. Of the Lake District planners he says: 'If they make as big a hash in this part of the world as they have in the towns then the country is finished'. Producer Patrick McCreanor
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