Comedy Series ‘Detectorists’ Digs into the Pastoral with Humor
The comedy series Detectorists turns a humble hobby into a humorous meditation on Englishness that even Thomas Hardy would enjoy.
Kevin Heaney
Graduate of the postgraduate master's degree in creative
writing at Lincoln University (UK) hosted in association with The
Guardian. Author of short fiction and a pilot episode of an audio drama about a man who finds a way of
talking with his dog. I've contributed a variety of pieces on sport and
music to the now-defunct site Sabotage Times (links, sadly, no longer
available). In the UK I've written for The Anfield Wrap, Red or Dead,and the official website for Liverpool Football Club.
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