One Woman and a Dog: how not to herd sheep.

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, August 2014)

Scientists think robots could herd sheep - now they've cracked how working dogs do it.

Researchers have fitted the animals with special GPS backpacks to find out why sheepdogs are so good at their jobs -- and found out it's down to just two simple rules..

At BBC Radio Stoke we wanted to test if it is really that simple.

So we've sent our reporter Emma Thomas to Nantwich to learn from a man who knows a thing or two about what it takes, the former 'One Man and His Dog' commentator, Gus Dermody....