A Farm Through Time: Victorian Age
03:05 am - 03:50 am, Saturday, January 3 on 5 HD (105)
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Victorian Age
Season 1, Episode 2
At Chiltern Open Air Museum, Ruth Goodman introduces Rob and Dave Nicholson to innovative, labour-saving Victorian farm machinery - the reaper binder and the controversial threshing machine. The brothers also meet blacksmith Mark Harding, and make a traditional shepherd's crook that they put to good use at Cannon Hall Farm
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Cast & Crew
Dave Nicholson
(Presenter)
Rob Nicholson
(Presenter)
Ruth Goodman
(Contributor)
Graham Cooper
(Series producer)
Dean Palmer
(Executive producer)
Lee Chapman
(Series director)
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Did You Know..
Dave Nicholson
(Presenter)
Rob Nicholson
(Presenter)
Ruth Goodman
(Contributor)
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.
Graham Cooper
(Series producer)
Dean Palmer
(Executive producer)
Lee Chapman
(Series director)
