2. Decisions

After his grandfather's death, James Rebanks' family face a difficult financial decision about the farm.

James is the first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself. He and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations.

An increasingly marginalised and precarious livelihood - it costs £1 to sheer a sheep, yet each fleece is worth only 40p - Rebanks' anger at the way small farmers are treated, and his passion for continuing his ancestors way of life, is palpable.

Through his eyes, we see that the Lake District is not a playground or a scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape that needs sheep and its farmers to survive.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Bryan Dick.

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.