In the quiet North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, a policeman's lot is often a very happy one. So found PC Nicholas Rhea, who's colourful and warm-hearted stories of his countryside beat in he 1960s are the inspiration behind the popular tv drama Hearbeat, starring Nick Berry. From skulduggery at the Aidensfield village whist drive to Seargeant Blaketon's trials with a stranded Humber Snipe, from Gold Top Gareth, the kleptomaniac milkman, to Roy, the devoted sheepdog who stays with his master to the very end, even in a hospital ward, PC Nick Rhea paints a delightful, poignant and amusing picture of a police constable's life in some of England's most beautiful countryside thirty years ago.