Name: Wartime Farm
Released: 2012-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn

TV Show · Documentary · History

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."

2012 · 58m

Starring Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn

Director Stuart Elliott, Naomi Benson

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

The farmers must learn to modernize in a World War II farming environment.

58m
EPISODE 2

Wartime Farm

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.

58m
EPISODE 3

Wartime Farm

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.

58m
EPISODE 4

Wartime Farm

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.

58m
EPISODE 5

Wartime Farm

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.

58m
EPISODE 6

Wartime Farm

The team tackles the conditions faced by British farmers in 1943, when food imports slumped to their lowest level during the War.

56m

Ruth Goodman

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Alex Langlands

Host
Peter Ginn

Host
Stuart Elliott

Director
Naomi Benson

Director
David Upshal

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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."

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