The farm later hosts to Leo Stevenson, explaining the role of an official war artist. Such artists were employed by the Ministry of Information to document the real experience of war on British soil. 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.

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Some nations suffered harshly during the shortages of wartime - others adapted and managed to keep their populace well-fed. A nation at war has many demands on its machinery and manpower - can you share resources more effectively than Lord Woolton and help the war effort? 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.Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Oct 08 - Oct 14". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Broadcast on 18 October 2012 at 8pm. [12] It is 1944, and a turning point for the Allies in World War II. Manor Farm's flax field—a crop heavily used by the military—has suffered in the unusually wet summer of 2012. Alex and Peter try to reinvigorate it using ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertiliser, but the rain does not let up. It remains so wet, in fact, that Alex has to re-waterproof his coat, using linseed oil, paraffin and beeswax from the colony he started in Episode 6. Broadcast on 27 September 2012 at 8pm. [9] As Europe falls to the Germans and British trade vessels are diverted to send supplies to the Soviets, the British government tightens its grip on farms like Manor Farm, expecting more and more home-grown food, drink and clothing. This week, Ruth, Alex and Peter do their best to impress an inspector from the local "War Ag", who is tasked with surveying their abilities and grading them as an "A", "B" or "C" farm. Farmers with low grades were in serious danger of penalties, or even total loss of their farms.

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Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Sep 10 - Sep 16". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted, first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012. 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. [1] The farming team consisted of historian Ruth Goodman, and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The Wartime Farm commissioning executives for the BBC are Emma Willis and James Hayes, and the Executive Producer for Lion Television is David Upshal. Top 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Oct 22 - Oct 28". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Due to audio problems with the last upload of this release , i have re-done it from the DVD , SO THIS IS A NEW UPLOADTop 30 Programmes / BBC2 / Oct 01 - Oct 07". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. Top 30 Programmes / BBC👏2 / Sep 03 - Sep 09". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) . Retrieved 20 April 2013. With the end of the war, and the end of a successful harvest, the team plans a final celebration to mark their time at Manor Park. They hold a "Holidays at Home" party, with pilchard and cabbage sandwiches, outdoor games, the hokey cokey, and a firework elephant.