Someone has gone into Bob Cromer's coffin looking for his best finds. Lance still hasn't done the gold dance. And a new character called Peter is already making enemies.

Your host Katie is joined by Ross (Instagram: @detectorosst) for Series 2, Episode 2 of the BAFTA-winning BBC comedy drama Detectorists, written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, which first aired on BBC4 on the 5th of November 2015.

Lance's flat is immaculate, his favourite shirt is on, and he is rehearsing in the mirror the fact that 90% of onions are consumed in the country they are grown in. He is going on a date and he did not tell anyone. Andy finds out by spotting him in the Lemon Tree cafe holding hands with a younger woman, immediately hides behind a tree, and phones to ask how Screwfix is going and whether they have a mariachi band. He also asks for galvanized nails.

Meanwhile Peter grabs Lance's detector without asking and swings it around a field until it reads a 35 on the CTX, causing visible panic, before pulling out a Coke can. Lance's position is clear. Simon and Garfunkel announce they have formed a new club called the Dirt Sharks, a joke which sails completely over their heads. The mayor of Danesbury arrives at the club needing a discreet favour involving a lost ceremonial chain and the long grass near Barnfather Woods, the place where all the cars go after dark.

In a bonus section Ross reveals the mayor is played by real-life mudlarker Talesfromtheforeshore (also known as Kenneth Collard), who got detecting in during lunch breaks on set alongside Mackenzie Crook himself.

Featuring Toby Jones as Lance, Mackenzie Crook as Andy, Rachel Stirling as Becky, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Sophie.

Find Ross at @detectorosst on Instagram.

For more metal detecting chat, interviews, and the history behind the finds, follow Katie and the Detecting History Podcast on Instagram and YouTube at @detectinghistorychannel, and listen on all major podcast platforms.

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