Dairy farmer trades Devon for Keny

Anyone bemoaning their lot in life might benefit from watching a TV show about highly successful English farmer Richard Gibson’s travels in northern Kenya.

The second programme in a BBC Two series entitled Toughest Place To Be A ... (Farmer), which airs tomorrow night at 9pm, shows the Devon dairy farmer travel to one of the most arid regions in the world, as he joins the Samburu tribe to live the life of a cattle herder.

Back in Devon, Richard treats his 120 Holstein cows like finely tuned athletes and in return they reward him with an incredible two million pints of milk a year.