Wartime Farm
2012 · Reality, Documentary · 1 Season · 8 Episodes ·
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
1. Episode 1Reclaiming unused land for farming is the first role on the 'frontline of freedom'.
2. Episode 2The team tackle the conditions faced in 1940, in the face of rationing and the Blitz.
3. Episode 3The team tackle the conditions in late 1940, when British cities were heavily bombed.
4. Episode 4The team faces a WW2 style government inspection, which could see the farm taken off them.
5. Episode 5The team tackle the shortages faced by British farmers in 1942.
6. Episode 6The team must cope with the challenges which followed the 1943 slump in food imports.
7. Episode 7The team face the conditions of 1944, when fields were full of troops preparing for D-Day.
8. Episode 8The team face the conditions of 1945, with Britain struggling to feed war-torn Europe.
