television

How to Live a Simple Life

June 22, 2010
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BBC2′s How to Live a Simple Life posed a simple question: can you live for most of a year without any money? Peter Owen-Jones surrendered his wallet in an attempt to find out.

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What The Good Life can tell us about self-sufficiency

February 2, 2010

The Good Life was an inspirational sitcom from the 1970s about Tom and Barbara giving up their regular employed, consumer-driven lives in favour of self-sufficiency. The Guardian imagined how it came about.

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My Dream Farm on Channel 4

January 20, 2010
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Channel 4 is launching My Dream Farm, fronted by ex-Gardeners’ World host Monty Don. It followed the trials and tribulations of six families who have traded the comfortable urban lives for a life of living and working on a farm.

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Your chance to live on the Victorian Farm

July 20, 2009

The team that brought you Victorian Farm is looking for members of the public to spend a week on the Farm estate, living the life of Victorian farmers in Escape In Time. Blagger caught up with the producers to find out how you can take part.

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Edwardian Farm coming soon

July 17, 2009

Good news for fans of Victorian Farm: the BBC has just announced that it has commissioned a follow-up, Edwardian Farm, and it looks set to be bigger and better than the original.

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Victorian Farm… finale

February 16, 2009

The BBC’s Victorian Farm has come to an end, and already the DVD is available to order for less than a tenner. I’ve bagged one, so I can enjoy the experience all over again.

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Victorian Farm on the BBC

January 28, 2009

Victorian FarmThe BBC is running a show called Victorian Farm right now, in which three people – two men and a woman – are spending a year living as tenant farmers on a large estate, with only the tools and methods that would have been available during the mid- to late-1800s.

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Chickens, Hugh and Tesco Too

January 27, 2009

Chickens, Hugh and Tesco TooHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returned to our TV screens last night to once again take on Tesco in the battle for better chicken welfare. The supermarket giant didn’t entirely smell of roses by the end.

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End of The Good Life

August 29, 2008

2008-the-good-life-thumbnail.jpgThe man we have to thank for naming our chickens died last week. John Esmonde part created Tom and Barbara Good, and their neighbours Margot and Gerry Leadbetter in the self-sufficiency TV comedy, The Good Life.

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