Lives: Trouble in Elsecar Park




Lives in a Landscape show

Summary: Alan Dein travels to Elsecar Park, Barnsley. For the past 4 years it has been home to Francis McDonald who both runs the cafe and acts as unofficial park keeper. It seemed like a paradise when McDonald opened the doors on a world he had known since his childhood. But gradually it became a kind of lonely hell. Now this will be his last autumn and the house on the hill will fall silent and shuttered. Producer: Mark Burman