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The Crown of the Year - AB - PDC2006

Four war-time films showing the operations on Britain’s farms during the four seasons of the year.

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A set of four films to explain the importance of farming in Britain during war-time, and howm optimising production would lead to less reliance on Atlantic convoys. The programme starts in Winter on the Farm in 1941, then Spring on the Farm, Summer on the Farm and finishes with the harvest festival in The Crown of the Year.

As featured on BBC Radio 4’s "On Your Farm".

Filmed in Uploaders, Dorset, Ross-on-Wye, Hereford, Lancashire and Cheshire and East Norfolk.

Directed by Ralph Keene. Produced by Edgar Anstey, music by William Alwyn.