A Farm through Time
REAL LIFE 9PM, CHANNEL 5
As historian Ruth Goodman continues to take Channel 5’s resident farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson on a journey through time, in this episode they’re experiencing life during the Victorian era. At Chiltern Open Air Museum, Ruth shows them some of the Victorian machinery that saved time and labour on a massive scale – but which also put many farm workers out of a job and left them facing starvation. Elsewhere, Rob and Dave have a go at ploughing the Victorian way – with a team of shire horses. ★★★