A Farm Through Time

Channel 5, 9pm

Dave and Rob Nicholson (above) are heading back to the Victorian age with the help of historian Ruth Goodman. It was an era when the population of Britain more than tripled, leaving the nation’s farmers wondering how they could feed so many people, especially with many labourers swapping the country for life in the big city. The answer, as the brothers discover, was timesaving machinery. ★★★★★