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Season 1 – Wartime Farm

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BBC's "Wartime Farm" features the efforts of historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn, who run Manor Farm as it may have been run during World War II. The program focuses on all aspects of domestic and farming life of the period, with the team managing livestock, attempting to cultivate unused land, tackling new tools and technologies, and learning the basics of civil defense -- all while facing shortages. They face one of the biggest challenges in the history of the British countryside, what Winston Churchill called "the frontline of freedom."
Wartime Farm — Season 1

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Ruth Goodman

Host

Alex Langlands

Host

Peter Ginn

Host

Naomi Benson

Producer

Stuart Elliott

Director

Stuart Elliott

Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 6, 2012 The farmers must learn to modernize in a World War II farming environment. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 13, 2012 The team tackles the conditions of 1940, in the face of bombing in the Blitz; Ruth learns about the impact that rationing had in the kitchen; Alex and Peter are confronted with vastly reduced supplies of feed for the animals. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 20, 2012 Ruth gets involved in the work of the Royal Observer Corps; Alex and Peter learn how to set up decoy fires to lure German bombers off target. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 27, 2012 Ruth, Peter and Alex face a World War II-style government inspection; when the inspector tells them to grow and to get their milking operation up and running, they grapple with a new tractor and a milking machine as part of a mechanization trend. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 4, 2012 The team tackle the shortages faced by British farmers in 1942;. Alex and Peter revert to a Victorian solution to the shortage of animal feed. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 11, 2012 The team tackles the conditions faced by British farmers in 1943, when food imports slumped to their lowest level during the War. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 18, 2012 The wettest summer has devastated the crop at Manor Farm; Alex and Peter must take drastic action. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 25, 2012 Ruth, Alex and Peter prepare to tackle the most crucial event of their farming year: harvesting the wheat crop. Details
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Season Info

Director
Stuart Elliott, Naomi Benson
Executive Producer
David Upshal
Network
BBC
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Reality, History, War
Release Date
Sep 6, 2012