WARTIME FARM

2012 RATING: 8.8

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EPISODE_GUIDE // S1

EP_1

Episode 1

2012-09-06

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

EP_2

Episode 2

2012-09-13

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

EP_3

Episode 3

2012-09-20

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

EP_4

Episode 4

2012-09-27

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

EP_5

Episode 5

2012-10-04

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

EP_6

Episode 6

2012-10-11

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

EP_7

Episode 7

2012-10-18

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

EP_8

Episode 8

2012-10-25

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

Description

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.

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STATUS Ended

EPISODE_RUNTIME 55 MIN

TOTAL_SEASONS 1

NETWORK BBC Two

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