POODUNNIT?
GOLD NUGGET?
Back end of two stories.
By Richard Brock
22nd March 2024

Richard Brock is two people. One is a wildlife film-maker and lives in Somerset in Chew Magna. The other Richard Brock is a detectorist who also lives in Somerset, but suddenly rushed off to Shropshire to get the largest gold nugget yet found in England, worth an estimated £30,000. They're only connected via poo!

One of the biggest stories recently has been about pollution on the River Wye and chicken manure. But both "Richard Brocks" got muddled up by both reporters at ITV and BBC who were interested in the nugget and not the poo problem. On the phone message it sounded like "Poodunnit?" - a wildlife detective story, rather than "gold nugget". It nearly got to the point of a crew turning up in Chew Magna to film one Richard Brock, whilst the other Richard Brock was chasing gold in Shropshire and not poo on the River Wye.

See: Detectorist finds 'largest' gold nugget in England & Man turns up an hour late to dig with faulty detector and finds biggest golden nugget in England etc ...

Interested in Poo? Watch POODUNNIT?

You're not likely going to find a nugget of gold anytime soon, but poo nuggets are everywhere, easy to find!!

You may have seen and heard about the bad conditions on our waterways, rivers, lakes, shores and coasts. Clean water is precious, both to us and wildlife, as Sir David Attenborough has stressed in his major wildlife conservation series on BBC 1, “Wild Isles”. Fixing it will be a massive challenge and costs will be high affecting what we will have to pay. But who is getting richer too? And how? It’s a scandal, involving what amounts to a crime, or rather a number of crimes. So, in addition to the massive media coverage and long-term news campaigns, we offer a film “POODUNNIT?” Different from the inevitable foul examples in what were pristine rivers “POODUNNIT?” tracks down the potential culprits with several Sherlock Holmes logos (+ farts!) in an hour-long hunt for the criminals on one of Britain’s most favourite rivers – the Wye, which flows between England and Wales – 155 miles. The journey follows the threatened Wye, through one year, from source to sea, using that ace fisherman the heron, and the handsome wild duck the mallard, as our guides, revealing whodunit? along the course of the dying Wye.

This is a wildlife detective story, very watchable, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but with a serious intention, plus outstanding wildlife film production values with BBC Natural History Unit experience.

Watch it. Become a Sherlock Holmes and find out! “POODUNNIT?” Whodunnit? Is doing it?

POODUNNIT? – A Wildlife Detective Story

Visit: brockinitiative.org/category/poodunnit-a-wildlife-detective-story