A five-part series in which presenter Christopher Cook and historian Helen Weinstein bring to life the diary of John Cannon - the extraordinary memoirs of an ordinary 18th-century taxman.

His raucous taxman days are now behind him but by the 1740s, the diarist has started making a decent living for his family again, this time as a schoolmaster and solicitor in Glastonbury.
However his newfound peace is disturbed by strange dreams and portents.