As well as the Finborough's numerous official remits, Neil McPherson does also seem to have a
fondness for scheduling rural dramas. The latest is Daniel Foxsmith's
Weald,
set in what used to be a large farm, but over the years much of it has been sold
off, and Sam (David Crellin) is the last of the family that owned it for a couple of
centuries. What he's got left is a stables, currently housing eight ageing horses
and just about enough work to keep him busy, but when a young man arrives asking for
a job he can't turn him down: Jim (Dan Parr) worked for him as a teenager before
leaving to try his luck in London. He's come back up North now fleeing something
(the same something every young man in a show I've seen recently seems to be running
to or from) and, having been with Jim's father when he died, Sam's developed
something of a surrogate father/son relationship with Jim.
