Wartime Farm

2012 - 2012

Episode 1

6th September 2012

Episode 1

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

Episode 2

13th September 2012

Episode 2

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

Episode 3

20th September 2012

Episode 3

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

Episode 4

27th September 2012

Episode 4

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

Episode 5

4th October 2012

Episode 5

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

Episode 6

11th October 2012

Episode 6

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

Episode 7

18th October 2012

Episode 7

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

Episode 8

25th October 2012

Episode 8

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

Top Cast

Peter Ginn•Ruth Goodman•Alex Langlands

Reality Documentary

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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Peter Ginn

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Ruth Goodman

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Alex Langlands

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John Simm

Narrator

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Emma Willis

Executive Producer

David Upshal

Executive Producer

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