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In Wartime Farm archaeologists and historians Alex, Peter and Ruth will take on their biggest challenge yet. As with Victorian and Edwardian Farm, they will be taking up the running of a farm for a... full calendar year, using only the tools and materials of an historic era. But this time they will be turning the clock back to World War Two - and mirroring the demands of an agricultural endeavour unparalleled in British history. Alex, Peter and Ruth are about to embark on nothing short of a revolution in British farming - one more akin to Soviet-style collectivization than anything else. With quotas and targets imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, new sweeping national standards were set down, irrespective of what type of farm you had or where it was located. In this episode the team faces a WW2-style government inspection, which could see the farm taken off them.
In Wartime Farm archaeologists and historians Alex, Peter and Ruth will take on their biggest challenge yet. As with Victorian and Edwardian Farm, they will be taking up the running of a farm for a... full calendar year, using only the tools and materials of an historic era. But this time they will be turning the clock back to World War Two - and mirroring the demands of an agricultural endeavour unparalleled in British history. Alex, Peter and Ruth are about to embark on nothing short of a revolution in British farming - one more akin to Soviet-style collectivization than anything else. With quotas and targets imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, new sweeping national standards were set down, irrespective of what type of farm you had or where it was located. In this episode the team faces a WW2-style government inspection, which could see the farm taken off them.
| Series: | Wartime farm |
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| Episode | 4 |
| First transmission date: | 27-09-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC1 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:19 |
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| Producer: | David Upshall |
| Presenter: | Alex Langlands |
| Narrator: | John Simm |
| Contributors: | Peter Ginn; Ruth Goodman; Alex Langlands |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mmt8t OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-wartime-farm |
| Master spool number: | BOU051018 |
| Production number: | FKIN444T |
| Videofinder number: | 83046 |
| Available to public: | no |
