Richard Lutwyche has been surrounded by pigs since birth, growing up on a farm alongside a herd of pedigree Wessex Saddlebacks. He ran the Gloucestershire Old Spots Pig Breeders Club, he was editor of "The Ark" magazine for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and is a council member of Three Counties Agricultural Society where he is Chief Steward and organiser of one of Britain's largest pig shows. A true expert, he is author of Pig Keeping (National Trust, 2010) and Higgledy-Piggledy (Quillar Press, 2010) and in 2010 he received the lifetime achievement award in the BBC Food & Farming Awards for his work with pigs and conservation of rare pig breeds.