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On Your Farm: World Darts Champion

31/05/2015

World Darts Champion

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, World Darts Champion

Charlotte Smith meets Scott Mitchell - world darts champion and Dorset farmer.

Scott Mitchell is best known as the world darts champion. Charlotte Smith hears about his passion for the family farm in Dorset and his desire to return to the world of farming.

Scott Mitchell is best known for his ability to hit a dartboard. He become the British Darts Organisation's World Champion this year. He's perhaps less well-known as a Dorset farmer, but when asked what he would do with the £100,000 championship prize money, his answer was that he would buy his dad a tractor which actually started when you turned the key. In this programme, Charlotte Smith travels to the Mitchell family farm on the edge of the New Forest, and hears how Scott had to find another career when Foot and Mouth disease forced him off the farm in 2001. It meant the farm had to downsize from 300 acres to just 75. Scott found a new role as a gardener, and in his spare time joined a darts team. It set him on a course which culminated in this year's world championship victory. Charlotte hears what that's been like for him. She also talks to the rest of the family about Scott's return to the farm - and she gets to have a look at that new tractor.

Presenter by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.

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