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Wartime Farm

  • 2012
  • Ended
  • Reality · Documentary
  • ~55m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 8.8/10

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.

Latest: Season 1 · 2012

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  1. E1. Episode 1

    Sep 6, 2012 · 55m

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

  2. E2. Episode 2

    Sep 13, 2012 · 55m

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

  3. E3. Episode 3

    Sep 20, 2012 · 55m

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

  4. E4. Episode 4

    Sep 27, 2012 · 55m

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

  5. E5. Episode 5

    Oct 4, 2012 · 55m

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

  6. E6. Episode 6

    Oct 11, 2012 · 55m

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

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