Wartime Farm Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode 5

Airdate: 2012-Oct-04

Episode summary:

The team attempt to deal with the conditions of 1942, when British farmers and the nation as a whole suffered from the massive shortages of vital materials such as wood, fuel and food. Ruth and her daughter Eve make their way to the New Forest to find out more about the story of the Women's Timber Corps. Peter and Alex face up to the wartime petrol crisis and find out how coal was so vital.

About Wartime Farm series:

“Wartime Farm” follows historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they take on their biggest ever chall...Show more >