External Rating38%
200530 minEnded

Tales from the Green Valley

Network:BBC Two

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S01E12 - "August"

Aired on Nov 4, 2005, 12:00 PM

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Description

A historical documentary TV series in 12 parts, first shown on BBC2 in autumn 2005 and it follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate farm life from the age of the Stuarts. They wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s.

Details

Status
Ended
Language
English
Runtime
30 min
Premiered
August 19, 2005
Ended
November 4, 2005
Schedule
Friday at 12:00 AM

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Episodes (1 Season · 12 Episodes)

September

Ploughing with oxen, baking in a hearth.

Aug 19, 2005

30 min

October

Gathering pears, thatching the cowshed roof with a bracken undercoat and a wheat thatch, period clothes and boots, driving pigs to forage.

Aug 26, 2005

30 min

November

Slaughtering and butchering a pig, building a daub and wattle wall, harvesting meddlars, salting a table, combing thatch and pegging it down, making hog's liver pudding.

Sep 2, 2005

30 min

December

Building a hovel (a woodshed), period clothing, peas, preparing for Christmas.

Sep 9, 2005

30 min

January

Preparing period medicines, wood gathering, hedge laying, ink-making, and home pharmacy.

Sep 16, 2005

30 min

February

A heavy fall of snow, rebuilding a lavatory, checking the sheep in preparation for lambing, musical instruments, preparing a meal of fish and bagged puddings for lent.

Sep 23, 2005

30 min

March

Preparing the garden for sowing, wheat threshing, brewing March beer, pig yokes, fun and games, egg and pear pie with stewed salt cod.

Sep 30, 2005

30 min

April

Spring cleaning, rebuilding a dry stone wall, a new baby calf.

Oct 7, 2005

30 min

May

Preparing a new field for spring sowing, making charcoal, and butter.

Oct 14, 2005

30 min

June

Washing and shearing sheep, cheese making, and mid-summer revels.

Oct 21, 2005

30 min

July

New harvest from the garden (beans and gooseberries), making hay, clothes washing.

Oct 28, 2005

30 min

August

Fattening geese, goose pie and carrot puree, wheat and straw harvest, reed lights.

Nov 4, 2005

30 min

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