Farms: Wartime Farm Episode 3 of 8
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The team tackles the conditions faced by the British farmers in late 1940, when Britain's cities were heavily bombed by the Nazis. The Blitz resulted in one of the biggest mass movements of people in British history as three million city dwellers fled to the countryside. To make outbuildings habitable as refugee shelters, Alex and Peter resort to the age-old craft of making tiles by hand - which means camping out for two days and nights in freezing cold to tend the tile-making kiln. 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. Ruth gets involved in the work of the Royal Observer Corps, who often enlisted farmers in the work of spotting enemy planes. Alex and Peter also learn how to set up 'decoy fires' to lure German bombers off target, a project known as Operation Starfish. With December approaching, the team look forward to celebrating Christmas 1940-style. People were understandably eager to put the horrors of war behind them - if only for a day - but this was the first Christmas under rationing and compromises had to be made. Alex looks at government solutions to the national 'toy shortage', whilst Peter discovers that soap had become the nation's favourite Christmas gift. With turkeys few and far between, Ruth cooks up an alternative - known as 'mock turkey' or 'murkey' - made from apples, onion and a dash of sausage meat, with a pair of parsnips for legs. Wartime Farm was produced by the BBC in partnership with The Open University.
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ok - so i'm eating my dinner - 'mucking out the cows' - oops, yuck - thanks for showing that, guys!!!!!!! lol
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So ingenious! I love the pamphlet on toys and some of these would be great for crafts with kids today (not the tin can planes).
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That quilt looks bloody cozy!
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Love it - dancing lessons in the barn and in wellingtons!
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OMG..Henry is the cutest Border Collie ever. I'm not even that much of a dog person, but you can just tell he is one of those animals with a really lovely disposition. Adorable with his nose tucked under the quilt !
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This is a great show. I enjoy it and am saddened by it at the same time. War. Men are so willing to engage in it against their fellow man. Why....
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My American dad served in WW2 and he and my mom talked about rationing and the hardships in the US. But gadzooks! The poor British people - so strong! If things go sideways where I live, Ruth has an open invitation to visit my family. Dan
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that's great and all but I still wish there was a documentary about the horrible casualties suffered by the Americans to bring in that last tird of the food, my nation really did a number on them and I feel they deserve some recognition.
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Am I wrong in thinking they might have been able to use some of the alcohol they made to power one of the machines instead of using gasoline? With rationing it seems to me that making something like wood alcohol for fuel would not have been unreasonable.
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I wouldn.t give the goverment shit. Would never tell them i had a pig ect.. Do love the historic shows.
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This series is great, I keep watching these videos over and over again.
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that is the most morose-looking dog I have ever seen. But I absolutely love these programs.
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A bit sad, No chocolate so Easter is a wash, Easter isn't more than chocolate bunnies?
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What is murkey?
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The English countertenor Alfred Deller was a Conscientious Objector during the war. He did farm work for a Quaker farm owner.
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Could they not hunt for game?
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+liamg1995 if a bomb exploded. The tape on the windows, was supposed to stop the glass shattering everywhere.
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Joshua...can't see a car! I've looked & looked :)
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I wish I was in WWII :(