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A Wartime Winter and Summer
Compilation programme from the ITV Anglia series.
Presented by Paul Heiney.
2xDVD set - Regions 2 & 4 (UK, Europe, Australia, NZ etc).
Also plays on PC & Multi Region Players worldwide.
Paul Heiney - Thatching a rick.
When the second world war broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not to starve, it had to do two things: reduce consumption of food in the home and increase production on the farm.
Both objectives were achieved. Output from Britain's farms doubled, and rationing eked our scarce food with the result that nobody starved. The story of how this was achieved is told in this twelve-part series.
A Wartime Winter and A Wartime Summer recreate a year in the life of a wartime farm, growing the crops which were of such vital importance - wheat, sugar beet, potatoes, flax and hay. Wartime food adviser and cookery writer Marguerite Patten is just one of the knowledgeable interviewees - including farmers and land girls - who give eyewitness accounts of those extraordinary times.
The programme salutes the crucial role played by the womens land army in British wartime food production.
Horses were still widely used on farms in wartime. Here two horses pull a potato harvester whilst a cartload of baskets await the day's pickers.
OUR OPINION:
This is an excellent 2xDVD set which will bring back memories for older viewers. It is delightfully presented by Paul Heiney and many other contributors. Well worth watching.
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Rationing was a major problem for housewives who had to cook with extremely limited resources. Here Paul tries a WW2 recipie prepared by Pam McMillan.
| Important DVD info | |
|---|---|
| Run time : | 240 minutes |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 (Wide) |
| Regions : | Region 2 & 4 |
| Video Format : | PAL |
| Language : | English |
| Subtitles : | No |
| Please contact us if you need more information on the suitability of this DVD for your equipment. | |
- Wartime Winter DVD Chapters
- Programme 1
- Outbreak of war - food crisis - War Ags - scythe - Anderson Shelter - oatmeal soup - gas masks - rations - the binder.
- Programme 2
- Stack binding - bringing land into production - Fordson tractor - preserving vegetables in brine.
- Programme 3
- Harvesting sugar beet - land girls - matting machine - sugar beet soup - German photo reconnaissance.
- Programme 4
- Grinding corn for meal - backyard hens - ploughing-up campaign - beef production - powdered egg.
- Programme 5
- Threshing - butterfly and incendiary bombs - Walton pie - new airfields - airmen - rat-catching.
- Programme 6
- Baling hay - mutton stew - haybox cooker - hedging and ditching - harrowing - the Metfield explosion.
- Wartime Summer DVD Chapters
- Programme 1
- Steam mole drainage - mock duck - distributing fertiliser by hand - steam cultivation and ploughing.
- Programme 2
- Harrowing - drilling sugar beet - pigeon shoot - pigeon pie - sowing flax with a seed riddle - Adrian Bell.
- Programme 3
- Planting Majestic potatoes - mock apricot flan and cream - Land-lease tractors - singling beet - Italian POWs - wartime timber.
- Programme 4
- Haymaking - ferreting - stacking hay - tithe war.
- Programme 5
- Pulling flax - beetroot soup and fishcakes - coot shoots - beekeeping.
- Programme 6
- M-H 21 combine - potato harvest - 'Potato Pete' - Operation Anvil disaster - Marguerite Patten.
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