Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Oct 22 - Oct 28". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Oct 15 - Oct 21". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Big train : complete bbc series 1 & 2 [1998] [dvd] 1 Doctor who 1 Gimme, gimme, gimme : complete bbc boxset [dvd] 1 Minette walters 1 The river - the complete bbc series [dvd] [1988] 1 The farm later hosts to Leo Stevenson, explaining the role of an official war artist. Such artists were employed by the Ministry of Information to document the real experience of war on British soil. He interviews the local pigeon fancier on his memories of the preparation for D-Day in Southampton, and produces a detailed painting of Ruth, Alex and Peter working the land while German Messerschmitt 110 and RAF Hurricane aircraft hurtle overhead.

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Some nations suffered harshly during the shortages of wartime - others adapted and managed to keep their populace well-fed. Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Sep 17 - Sep 23". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Broadcast on 18 October 2012 at 8pm. [12] It is 1944, and a turning point for the Allies in World War II. Manor Farm's flax field—a crop heavily used by the military—has suffered in the unusually wet summer of 2012. Alex and Peter try to reinvigorate it using ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertiliser, but the rain does not let up. It remains so wet, in fact, that Alex has to re-waterproof his coat, using linseed oil, paraffin and beeswax from the colony he started in Episode 6.Ruth, meanwhile, joins the Women's Timber Corps with her daughter, Eve. Together they fell, sned and measure up a tree for the war effort. They also meet a veteran 'Lumber Jill' from the 1940s, who expresses her enjoyment of the camaraderie and work ethic of the Corps, despite the hard work. Later in the episode, Alex and Peter build a straw-bale outhouse for visitors and evacuees, complete with a thatched nettle roof; harvest grass from the local churchyard to make hay for their dairy herd; and start their own bee-keeping concern. Item: 276060949302 The Complete Wartime Farm DVD | Incl Christmas Episode. Discs Play Fine. Will Be Posted Next Day. As Ruth, Alex and Peter leave Manor Farm for the last time, they reminisce over the last year, and express their respect for the farmers and their families who ploughed on during the war.

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Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Sep 24 - Sep 30". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. From the acclaimed producers of Edwardian Farm and Victorian Farm comes a brand new factual series. Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman return to experience life on a farm, this time during the Second World War. This latest experiment proves to be nothing short of a revolution in British farming, as the team take on their biggest challenge yet. Wartime Farm is a fascinating blend of war history, survival creativity and endurance. A nation at war has many demands on its machinery and manpower - can you share resources more effectively than Lord Woolton and help the war effort? This three disc set contains all eight episodes of the hugely popular BBC series which follows our experts across a year, using only historical tools and materials. A special feature, in which the presenters talk about making the show, is also included and constitutes a must have extra for fans.With the help of a new Field Marshall tractor and a team of Percheron draught horses, the team sow flax on their spare field, at the recommendation of the War Ag inspector. It is also time to start milking the dairy herd, using an early vacuum milking machine. Since the herd's feed makes a noticeable difference to the quality of their milk, Alex and Peter finally begin to use the silage they produced in Episode 2. Shorty', the pig raised by Ruth's Pig Club from Episode 2, has fattened up over the last six months, and is ready for slaughter. Half of the pork is split between the club members, and half is donated, as required, to the government. Ruth follows its progress right to the dinner tables of a British Restaurant (or "emergency food centre"), as she serves the boiled pork, alongside boiled onions, baked beans, with a white sauce, and plum duff for pudding, for local air raid victims and evacuees.

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Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Sep 10 - Sep 16". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. With the end of the war, and the end of a successful harvest, the team plans a final celebration to mark their time at Manor Park. They hold a "Holidays at Home" party, with pilchard and cabbage sandwiches, outdoor games, the hokey cokey, and a firework elephant. Every device we sell or rent on the musicMagpie Store goes through an extensive in-house refurbishment process to ensure you're getting a great quality device for a great price. Here's everything you need to know! Due to audio problems with the last upload of this release , i have re-done it from the DVD , SO THIS IS A NEW UPLOAD Broadcast on 27 September 2012 at 8pm. [9] As Europe falls to the Germans and British trade vessels are diverted to send supplies to the Soviets, the British government tightens its grip on farms like Manor Farm, expecting more and more home-grown food, drink and clothing. This week, Ruth, Alex and Peter do their best to impress an inspector from the local "War Ag", who is tasked with surveying their abilities and grading them as an "A", "B" or "C" farm. Farmers with low grades were in serious danger of penalties, or even total loss of their farms.

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