THE premise of a disparate array of family members gathering on a Yorkshire hillside to scatter their late father’s ashes is not an unreasonable one, particularly as it transpires that the place specified for their scattering was where he buried his ill-gotten gains from a life of crime.

Cue jokes about ‘townies’ struggling with tents and the shortage of places to spend a penny.

Richard James’ limp script, though carefully dishing out clues about the lost loot and the parentage of a computer-game obsessed grandchild (a nice turn by Adam Farr), was not enough to keep the action moving forward, nor was it helped by the many prompts from the outset, and the inaudibility of some of the actors.

Nicki Salmond and Laura Skelton, as antagonistic half-sisters Rachel and Helen, established the most credible characters, with Nigel Bonynge a gruffly amiable farmer Wilson”.