- DVD
- Publisher: Old Pond Publishing Ltd (Oct 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1905523602
- ISBN-13: 978-1905523603
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
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Product Description
"A Wartime Winter" and "A Wartime Summer" recreate a year growing the crops which were of such vital importance - wheat, sugar beet, potatoes, flax, and hay. Threaded within the programmes are eyewitness accounts of those who lived through these extraordinary times, as farmers, land girls and housewives.
About the Author
Paul Heiney has been a television reporter for over twenty years, starting with That's Life! He has worked on In at the Deep End, the Travel Show, Food and Drink and, on Radio 4, You and Yours. Recently he has enjoyed getting justice for BBC 1's viewers on Watchdog. In 1990 he transformed his life by taking up traditional farming in Suffolk. For ten years he worked 36 acres with Suffolk Punches, a decade rich with experience as he learned what life must have been like for our farming predecessors. He wrote a diary of his activities for the Times as well as several books. He also created two best-selling videos about farming with horses, Harnessed to the Plough and First Steps to the Furrow, working with his mentors, Roger and Cheryl Clark. Paul had agreed with his wife, fellow broadcaster and writer Libby Purves, that they should have the farm for no more than ten years. After the farm's sale Paul has tried to make more time for his other great passion, sailing. He has also presented for Anglia the popular series A Victorian Summer, eight half-hour programmes that show both sides of traditional farming: the glory of working the land with horses as well as the rigours and difficulties that Victorian farmers faced. 'Working the land', says Paul, 'is about the people who labour on it, so I hope we capture some of the richness of character which defines the countrymen and women of the eastern counties. They remain, for me, farming heroes.'
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A well presented selection of fascinating facts, Mar 31 2010
By Able Mabel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Wartime Winter and Summer (DVD)
Enthusiastically presented by Paul Heiney this production is full of fascinating facts about farming during the second world war, how the landscape had to change to meet the needs of the nation, how women had to be accepted as a vital part of the work force and a general but fascinating insight into life in the countryside during that period. Paul's knowledge and interest in traditional farming methods is evident.Punctuated by visits to a wartime kitchen we are shown the difficulties endured, not just in the production of food before it arrives on the table but once there, how the housewife is forced to adapt. An appearance by Margeurite Patten as she is today yet sitting in the wartime kitchen, brings a feeling of reality, connecting the past with the present.
The urgent plough changed the landscape forever and so too did the increasing number of airfields. Life continued amid the conflict and this series tells how from the angle of rural life.
Well done to all for an excellent production. I found myself wishing our farms were like that today.
If you are interested in WWII, old farming methods, country ways, Home Front and a whole lot more you'll enjoy this.
Just another note: The farming featured is mainly arable and I can't help feeling there could have been a follow-up series for livestock and horticulture with snippets of more home front information, if available I would buy it without hesitation.
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