Mike Priest’s festive emotional breakdown saw him hunkered in his box room with a pop filter, egg cartons and a rhyming dictionary. Seven days later, Mike emerged, saved by a beast fable and buoyed by the wits of a champion rooster-sheriff named Chanticleer. This is the very first airing of his radio play ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Cockerel’ destined for prime time billing on Grassington Longwave - North Yorkshire's second favourite local radio station.