Episode 1 | Tudor Monastery Farm

Duration: 59'03''

Synopsis

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back over 500 years to run a farm in West Sussex exactly as it would have been in 1500.

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