[lace-chat] Re: Edwardian Farm

2010-12-02 Thread Linda Walton

If all else fails, you could try buying the dvd of the programmes!

Here is more information about it, (from Amazon UK, but I expect there 
are many other sources, both for buying and for Region):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0045ZIY90/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0279RYWWSYB0CFXRVSXX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=219600407&pf_rd_i=468294

There is also a book to supplement the information shown in the series:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edwardian-Farm-Ruth-Goodman/dp/1862058857/ref=pd_bxgy_d_h__img_b

While the book is already available, the dvd will not be released until 
February 14th, 2011; when it finishes airing on television, I suppose. 
A Valentine's Day gift, perhaps?


I have purchased the dvd recordings and the books for their some of 
their earlier series, ("Victorian Farm", "Tales of the Green Valley" 
showing seventeenth century farming), and I have been overjoyed with the 
quality of them all.


Since the participants are professional historians and archaeologists, 
the research has always been of a very high standard.  Also, their good 
nature, and their enthusiasm for discovering what can be learnt by 
trying the experiences, is delightful.  That is especially so by 
contrast with similar series which seem to concentrate on being amused 
by the mistakes and sufferings people who know nothing about the period, 
and who seem especially chosen to generate conflicts - "Big Brother in 
Fancy Dress", as it were, if not a huge practical joke.


One final point, most dvd recordings of such series usually have extra 
material, which perhaps was edited out of the programmes, and which can 
be particularly interesting.


Linda Walton,
in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.,
(where it's jolly cold, but not very snowy).

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Re: [lace-chat] Re: Edwardian Farm

2010-12-02 Thread Malvary J Cole
If you campaign your local PBS station, they might show the series.  We have 
had Victorian Farm here in Ottawa, but that might have been on TV Ontario 
which is also a Public Broadcast Station with some support from Ontario but 
also with public support.


I realise that the PBS station in Watertown, NY does carry a lot of UK 
programming because of the support it gets from local Canadian viewers, but 
if enough people support and campaign their local PBS station they might 
carry it - they are there to provide programming that they get support for.


Malvary in Ottawa - waiting for Edwardian Farm in a year or so! 


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[lace-chat] Re: Edwardian Farm

2010-12-02 Thread Tatman
I share in your grief, Janice!

These are the only two videos I could find clips of the Edwardian Farm
episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22gych2MlcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MIg_geAU20

There are a few of the Victorian episodes as well.

Wish others would post more so that those of us that can't view BBC.com
episodes could have a gander.  How about those that are able to watch it
somehow capture the video of the lacemaking episode and share it with the
lacemaking communities?? ;)

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