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Following on from the hugely successful Victorian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman return to Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two as they experience life on an Edwardian farm.

With an epic 12 episodes following life on the farm over a whole calendar year, Edwardian Farm goes deep into a lost rural world where life was tough and working together was the only means of achieving anything.

Setting up home at Morwellham Quay, in Devon, the intrepid trio have to get to grips with the trials and tribulations of life at the turn of the 20th century. This was a time of great social change and tumult – a time when farming was becoming increasingly mechanised at home and abroad the world was moving gradually towards war.

Morwellham Quay was once one of the busiest ports in Britain but has long since come to a standstill – it's now down to Alex, Peter and Ruth to bring it back to life as it would have been in its hey-day during the reign of King Edward VII.

They'll have to learn new period skills and crafts, using only the tools and materials that would have been available at the time.

But farming here was about far more than just livestock and crops. Farmers had to diversify and the stunning new location allows the team to explore other areas of the wider working countryside, including fishing, tin mining, market gardening and to master the industrial advances of the Edwardian age.

From investigating the impact of water-powered machines and the world's first tractor, the team will engage in a whole host of challenging activities, delving into Britain's rural heritage once again to unearth how Edwardian farmers recovered from the agricultural depression leaner, fitter and more diverse then ever before.

Notes to Editors

The 12 x 60-minute series is produced by Lion Television and will be broadcast in November 2010. The series was commissioned by Martin Davidson and Emma Willis at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

The executive producer at Lion Television is David Upshal.

The last series of Victorian Farm, broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two in January 2010, attracted an average of 3.6m viewers, peaking at 4.7m for the final episode.

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