Buried is the multi award-winning investigative series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this thrilling new investigation, Dead Rabbit, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the wildlife presenter Chris Packham to investigate. First, villagers find 20 mangled animals outside a primary school, then 50 by a farm shop, blood smeared over the doors. </p><p>Are they a Godfather-like threat? A taunt? A strange Satanic sacrifice? Or - just like in a classic horror movie - the first flash of a monster, lurking in the shadows? </p><p>The answer leads the team to uncover a terrifying criminal underworld operating in the heart of the countryside. Masked men in 4x4s, violent rage and tens of thousands of pounds at stake. Chris Packham tells us how his own dead-animal threats escalated into a car bomb outside his house. Farmers and villagers say they feel abandoned and the problem is darker - and far more widespread - than anyone thought. </p><p>Dead Rabbit begins like a folk horror movie but turns into a gripping, fast-paced thriller about the takeover of illegal hare coursing in the countryside. As one witness told us: it's like Hot Fuzz meets Squid Game. </p><p>This is the third series of Buried, bringing bingeable, fast-paced mysteries exposing urgent environmental true stories you've almost certainly never heard of. Husband-and-wife investigative duo Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor dive into secret worlds of organised crime unfolding in our waste (Series 1) or trails of toxic chemicals that go right to our plates (Series 2, Buried: The Last Witness). Each series is a separate story bringing to light never-before-heard recordings and boxes of explosive legal documents, inviting the audience to unpick crimes or scandals with them.</p>
Buried
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<p>Why is someone leaving dozens of dead animals as a mafia-style warning in the British countryside? Buried is the multi award-winning investigative series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this thrilling new investigation, Dead Rabbit, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the wildlife presenter Chris Packham to investigate. First, villagers find 20 mangled animals outside a primary school, then 50 by a farm shop, blood smeared over the doors. </p><p>Are they a Godfather-like threat? A taunt? A strange Satanic sacrifice? Or - just like in a classic horror movie - the first flash of a monster, lurking in the shadows? </p><p>The answer leads the team to uncover a terrifying criminal underworld operating in the heart of the countryside. Masked men in 4x4s, violent rage and tens of thousands of pounds at stake. Chris Packham tells us how his own dead-animal threats escalated into a car bomb outside his house. Farmers and villagers say they feel abandoned and the problem is darker - and far more widespread - than anyone thought. </p><p>Dead Rabbit begins like a folk horror movie but turns into a gripping, fast-paced thriller about the takeover of illegal hare coursing in the countryside. As one witness told us: it's like Hot Fuzz meets Squid Game. </p><p>This is the third series of Buried, bringing bingeable, fast-paced mysteries exposing urgent environmental true stories you've almost certainly never heard of. Husband-and-wife investigative duo Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor dive into secret worlds of organised crime unfolding in our waste (Series 1) or trails of toxic chemicals that go right to our plates (Series 2, Buried: The Last Witness). Each series is a separate story bringing to light never-before-heard recordings and boxes of explosive legal documents, inviting the audience to unpick crimes or scandals with them.</p>
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August 19, 2025
Preview - File on 4 Investigates: Rivers of Lead
<p>There are more than 6,000 abandoned lead mines across the UK leaking hundreds of tons of metals into our rivers each year. With climate change causing an increase in flooding, contamination is likely to get worse. In this new investigation, Buried hosts Lucy Taylor and Dan Ashby ask whether this lead is ending up in our food chain, water system and blood.</p><p>To hear the programme in full, just search for File on 4 Investigates: Rivers of Lead on BBC Sounds now.</p><p>A Bite Your Tongue production for BBC Radio 4</p>
November 3, 2024
Series 1 - Bonus Episode: Recycling Corrupted
<p>Two years on from their award-winning Buried series about British waste crime, investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor return to Mobuoy in Northern Ireland, where more than one million tonnes of recycling and waste was illegally dumped. </p><p>Inundated with new leads and information, they decide to follow secret waste trackers hidden in councils' recycling today. The devices lead them to startling revelations about the scale of problems in recycling. Worse still, a police file reveals suspicions that waste criminals flourished thanks to corruption.</p><p>Written and produced by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor Executive Producer: Phil Abrams Sound Design: Jarek Zaba Sound Recording: Nigel Thompson Composer: Phil Channell Commissioning Editor: Hugh Levinson</p><p>A Smoke Trail production for BBC Radio 4</p>
June 24, 2024
The Last Witness - 10. The Apex Stone
<p>In a finale of discoveries, Dan and Lucy speak to Douglas's best friend and finally learn the truth about his stories. </p><p>They are moved to test their own blood for PCBs. When Douglas talked about 'the children... and the children's children...' Do you get it now? </p><p>At Douglas’s grave, the 'apex stone' is revealed.</p><p>Buried is the award-winning true-crime series digging into some of the most disturbing environmental stories in history. In this new investigation, reporters Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor team up with the film star Michael Sheen. Together, they dig into the unseen files of a man who said he was beaten up and put under police protection, after alleging that a chemical had contaminated the food chain.</p><p>Produced and presented by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor Research by Georgie Styles Additional research by Grace Nicholls and Cardiff Journalism School Sound design and mixing by Jarek Zaba Original music and sounds by Phil Channell Executive Producers: Philip Abrams and Anita Elash Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke</p><p>A Smoke Trail production for BBC Radio 4</p>
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