One Born at Midnight: Lambing Live at Shugborough

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, March 2015)

Shugborough Estate is opening its farm doors to let the public watch new lambs be born, for the first time ever.

The lambing event began last night (thursday) and continues tonight and tomorrow from 9pm.

Visitors can learn about the rare breeds at the site and bottle-feed some of the new borns.

But of course, witnessing a birth isn't guaranteed by mother nature, as BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS found out....