Farming Today This Week
Blacksmiths, thatchers and wood turners are wowing the crowds at the Royal Cornwall Show; Sarah Swadling investigates what place rural crafts have in modern life.
The UK has a growing list of traditional trades at risk of disappearing. To combat that, the Government has announced a review into the shortage of craft skills, and the heritage lottery fund has pledged more than Β£13millon for training the next generation of craft workers. It is estimated there are only a handful of people left who know who to make swill baskets, sieve and riddles and wooden ladders using age-old methods. Sarah Swadling is at the Royal Cornwall Show meeting the blacksmiths, wheelwrights and thatchers to find out if these artisan techniques have a place in modern British manufacturing.
Presented by Sarah Swadling and produced by Angela Frain.
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