THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Yackers was a 1990 film produced by members of Fryup Young Farmers’ Club in response to a BBC Schools commission for a home-made documentary entitled ‘Life On The Farm’.  The film, which was leaked to newspapers, was accused of “ploughing through a wild, rural world of sex, drink and debauchery” by the Express, while The Times said it exposed “the secret face of feral Britain”.  Scenes included pig-swill wrestling, badger-baiting, and a drunken hay-barn orgy.  Its protagonists later revealed that the scenes in the film had been faked – and the media storm concocted – in order to expose and subvert the lazy stereotypes with which young farmers were routinely confronted.

Anon