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Last broadcast on Mon, 9 Nov 2009, 19:30 on BBC Four.
Synopsis
Series in which five experts, archaeologists and historians, take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I.
It is June, and the team need to give the sheep a good wash in a local stream, warmed by a period potion called sheepwashers' posset. Only then can they start shearing them by hand, a backbreaking task. In the dairy, the girls have a go at making cheese the old fashioned way, and the boys have to catch up with weeding the wheat field.
Credits
- Director
- Peter Sommer
- Producer
- Peter Sommer
Broadcast
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Mon 9 Nov 200919:30
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