Sobering listening on BBC Radio 4

[peter207]

Just listened to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1w91

you'll need a real player to listen, but please do listen, it raises some sad and sobering thoughts

 

[pepsimaxrock]

go on give us a clue?

 

[peter207]

It was all about the recent case involving the horse farm in the uk and the rspca's work. It was all fairly horrible, and a reflection on the economic realities effecting the horse market. If you can listen via the BBC's iplayer.

 

[peter207]

here's the BBC's blurb for the programme:

In January 2008 the RSPCA raided a farm in Buckinghamshire and in a glare of publicity, removed more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys, as well as the carcasses of others. Mike Embley follows the ensuing court case and finds out what it reveals about the horse trade in Britain