‘Publicans can’t repeat what they hear’

Journalist Quentin Letts gets the gossip in The Cocks pub in Shropshire with landlady Sandra Jefferies. But, says Sandra, a good publican never tells on their punters. The Cocks is firmly established at the heart of the village of Stottesdon and survived the spate of recent pub closures by setting up a shop selling local produce. In the series which looks at the purpose of Great British institutions, Quentin Letts asks: ‘What’s the point of pubs?’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m16ph