Wartime Farm

Wartime Farm

2012
1 Season
8.8
RealityDocumentary

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

Episode 1
E1Sep 6, 201255m

Episode 1

Reclaiming unused land for farming is the first role on the 'frontline of freedom'.

Episode 2
E2Sep 13, 201255m

Episode 2

The team tackle the conditions faced in 1940, in the face of rationing and the Blitz.

Episode 3
E3Sep 20, 201255m

Episode 3

The team tackle the conditions in late 1940, when British cities were heavily bombed.

Episode 4
E4Sep 27, 201255m

Episode 4

The team faces a WW2 style government inspection, which could see the farm taken off them.

Episode 5
E5Oct 4, 201255m

Episode 5

The team tackle the shortages faced by British farmers in 1942.

Episode 6
E6Oct 11, 201255m

Episode 6

The team must cope with the challenges which followed the 1943 slump in food imports.

Episode 7
E7Oct 18, 201255m

Episode 7

The team face the conditions of 1944, when fields were full of troops preparing for D-Day.

Episode 8
E8Oct 25, 201255m

Episode 8

The team face the conditions of 1945, with Britain struggling to feed war-torn Europe.

Top Cast

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Peter Ginn

Himself

Ruth Goodman

Ruth Goodman

Herself

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Alex Langlands

Himself

John Simm

John Simm

Narrator