The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

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The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

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Alex and Peter spend much of the episode generating silage to feed their remaining animals over winter. On top of farmers' herculean efforts to double food production, their detailed knowledge of the landscape also made them ideal recruits for one of the war's most secret organisations - the 'Auxiliary Units', a British resistance force trained to use guerrilla tactics against German invasion. In addition to running the farm, the team are soon recruited into the government's secret Auxiliary Units. Despite the freezing November temperatures, their makeshift kiln must burn at over 900°C (1,650°F) for two days and two nights, requiring constant supervision. The farm is adorned with decorations made from paper, holly and a glitter-like substance made from epsom salts, while Alex secretly makes a toy Supermarine Spitfire out of spare tin cans.

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Rationing is still in force, so Ruth tries a potato-based cake recipe from the Women's Institute and sweetens it with 'mock' orange juice made from swede. They are visited by a 94-year-old conscientious objector who was conscripted as a farm labourer because he refused to fight on religious grounds. Tudor Monastery Farm (2013) explored what farming was like near the end of the reign of Henry VII, at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. With the danger of aerial bombardment resolved, they instantly remove Manor Farm's blackout precautions, and set about planning a Victory in Europe Day party.Goodman, Ginn and Langlands began their collaboration with Tales from the Green Valley (2005) , a programme exploring life on a small farm in Gray Hill, Monmouthshire, Wales, in the 17th century. This tv series , with the following characteristics commentary and also an aspect ratio : 4:3; A format reported as dvd; A cinematic movement : cult and also to a studio : bbc. Ruth spends an evening with a veteran of the Royal Observer Corps, learning how to track enemy aircraft and relay their locations back to the control centre in Winchester.

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They also construct a 'Horse Gin' to slice swede, and convert a 1930s petrol-powered ambulance to run on gas from an onboard coal furnace. There is a new farmhouse to modernise, strict new rules to abide by and air raid precautions to contend with. Later in the episode, Alex and Peter build a straw-bale outhouse for visitors and evacuees, complete with a thatched nettle roof; harvest grass from the local churchyard to make hay for their dairy herd; and start their own bee-keeping concern. Victory in Europe meant that Britain had to share the responsibility for feeding populations across the war-torn continent whose food supplies had been devastated.The team discovers that Wartime Farmers could lose everything - their home and their land - if the government did not think they were productive enough. As the trio explore what farming life was like in the past, they set out to recreate the conditions under which World War II farmers would have worked. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal (Europe) S. Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn face up to the challenges of the biggest revolution ever seen in the history of the British countryside as they turn Manor Farm back to how it was run in the Second World War.

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The 60-minute programme recreated the conditions of Christmas 1944 and was presented by Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn. Alex and Peter are introduced to guerrilla fighting tactics in late night training sessions, while Ruth relays top secret messages for the Special Duty Sections from her potting shed. Exploring countryside memories of VE Day, they discover how pressure on farmers increased throughout the final dramatic year of conflict. The series, the fourth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television in association with the Open University, and was filmed at Manor Farm Country Park, now Manor Farm and River Hamble Country Park respectively, close to Southampton. Ruth makes her own dress out of cotton flour sacks (purposefully designed, she says, to be re-used by industrious housewives), and curls her hair using sugar water.We also sell a wide range of refurbished Mobile Phones and Tech from major brands like Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft and much more.

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He interviews the local pigeon fancier on his memories of the preparation for D-Day in Southampton, and produces a detailed painting of Ruth, Alex and Peter working the land while German Messerschmitt 110 and RAF Hurricane aircraft hurtle overhead. Ruth finds out how Britain coped with shortages of the wood vital for the war effort in the building of aircraft, ships and rifles, as well as pit props for crucial coal mining. The Ministry of Food has demanded an extra 840,000 tonnes of wheat be produced and, to do their part, Alex and Peter lease specialist equipment from the wartime government to turn every last scrap of ground into arable land. Will they be able to operate a successful farm using only the tools and equipment available in the 1940s? An associated book by Langlands, Ginn and Goodman— Wartime Farm: Rediscovering the Skills and Spirit of World War II—was published in 2012.Shorty', the pig raised by Ruth's Pig Club from Episode 2, has fattened up over the last six months, and is ready for slaughter. Such artists were employed by the Ministry of Information to document the real experience of war on British soil.



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