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The team heads to Dartmoor to find out how shepherds took advantage of the landscape to boost their income, taking their flocks there for summer grazing. Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn get to grips with shearing, while Ruth Goodman visits a wool mill to learn how the fleeces were processed and manufactured. Land agent Rupert Acton and his family join the trio for a picnic, before using historic maps to follow an authentic Edwardian hiking trail
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News/Current Affairs
Cast & Crew
Ruth Goodman
(Presenter)
Alex Langlands
(Presenter)
Peter Ginn
(Presenter)
David Upshal
(Executive producer)
Chris Mitchell
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
Ruth Goodman
(Presenter)
Best Known For:
Victorian Farm.
Early-life:
Ruth was born in 1963. She made her TV debut in Tales from the Green Valley, which saw her spending a year reconstructing and maintaining a 17th-century farm with archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands.
Career:
In 2009, Goodman was part of a team that recreated everyday life on a small farm in Shropshire in the mid-19th century in popular BBC series Victorian Farm. Her other TV projects on similar lines include Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and Wartime Farm. She has also presented Coast and 24 Hours in the Past. Away from her TV work, Goodman works with a range of institutions and museums such as The Weald and Downland, The Globe Theatre, and the National Trust.
Quote:
"We matter. How our ancestors - ordinary men, women and children - solved the nitty gritty problems of everyday life made the world what it is today."
Trivia:
In 2012, Goodman was awarded an Honorary Degree from Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln.
Alex Langlands
(Presenter)
Peter Ginn
(Presenter)
David Upshal
(Executive producer)
Chris Mitchell
(Producer)
