Heartwarming and addictive, The Lakes is a real-life soap opera about remarkable and eccentric people and the stunning landscape which defines them, including Thomas Noblett (aka The Gladiator) with his increasingly ambitious challenges for charity. The Neild brothers who have to cope with the double tragedies of flood followed by drought destroying their livelihoods, and the eccentric Patrick Gordon Duff Pennington and family welcome us to Muncaster Castle. We also meet ‘Pig whisperer’ Rob, who left his successful career in the city to breed ‘micropigs’, and larger-than-life hairdresser Andrew Mottram, who shares his passion for wildlife.
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