In Search of the Wantley Dragon

Poet Ian McMillan explores the bawdy 17th-century comic poem The Dragon of Wantley. He uncovers long-forgotten violent disputes, a knight clad in locally-made armour, pantomimes, operettas and the eerily quiet dragon's den. Ian meets the dragon's descendants and learns that, in its day, this Yorkshire-based story was as famous as that of Robin Hood.