Wartime Farm
2012 · 1 season · 8 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Reality, Documentary
TMDB 8.8 · 8 votes
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn turn back the clock to run Manor Farm in Hampshire exactly as it would have been during World War II.
Episodes
- S01E01Episode 12012-09-0655m
Reclaiming unused land for farming is the first role on the 'frontline of freedom'.
- S01E02Episode 22012-09-1355m
The team tackle the conditions faced in 1940, in the face of rationing and the Blitz.
- S01E03Episode 32012-09-2055m
The team tackle the conditions in late 1940, when British cities were heavily bombed.
- S01E04Episode 42012-09-2755m
The team faces a WW2 style government inspection, which could see the farm taken off them.
- S01E05Episode 52012-10-0455m
The team tackle the shortages faced by British farmers in 1942.
- S01E06Episode 62012-10-1155m
The team must cope with the challenges which followed the 1943 slump in food imports.
- S01E07Episode 72012-10-1855m
The team face the conditions of 1944, when fields were full of troops preparing for D-Day.
- S01E08Episode 82012-10-2555m
The team face the conditions of 1945, with Britain struggling to feed war-torn Europe.
