Stars join festival’s celebration of county television highlights

MEMBERS OF the cast and crew of Channel 5’s hit remake of All Creatures Great and Small have been added to the list of people appearing at a festival in Yorkshire this summer.

Organisers of the 5 on the Farm Festival have confirmed the event will be going ahead on August Bank Holiday, August 30, which will feature the best Yorkshire has to offer on television.

The event is taking place at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley, where This Week on the Farm is filmed, and will also feature The Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen, inset, and The Yorkshire Vets Julian Norton and Peter Wright. The main stage event will see adventurer Ben Fogle perform his ‘Tales From the Wilderness’ show live, and the stars of This Week on the Farm Rob and Dave Nicholson will also perform their show: ‘Rob & Dave: Oh ’eck Live!’.

Dog trainer Graeme Hall’ ‘The Dogfather’, Amanda Owen’s ‘The Yorkshire Shepherdess Live’, and ‘The Yorkshire Vet Live: It Shouldn’t Happen to a Yorkshire Vet’ will also be performed on the main stage.

Stefan Gates of Secrets of Your Supermarket Food series will perform The Mindblowing Gastronaut

Show! and Adam Henson will be sharing his tales of farming life

In The Barn, visitors can join in with live Q&As with Ben Fogle & Amanda and Reuben Owen and meet their favourite animals from the show in a behind the scenes experience. Cannon Hall’s chef Tim Bilton, as well as Amanda Owen, will be cooking a Yorkshire feast. Tickets cost £49.95 for those over 16, £24.95 for children aged two to 15, and children under two go free. The ticket price includes access to Cannon Hall Farm. Gates open at 9am and close at 7.30pm.