Trivia / BBC Historical Farm Series

• Bonus Material:
  • Ruth Goodman answering some viewer questions.
  • Victorian Farm Christmas preview trailer. A whole website of Christmas tips from the period, and a video of Ruth explaining how to prepare Victorian era Christmas decorations, including home-made Christmas crackers.
  • Edwardian Farm's website
  • This little Wartime Farm video with the main cast, where they also present the non-fiction book based on the topics covered in the show. Additional stuff, such as recipes or instructions for Christmas decorations, can also be found at the show's site.
  • How could you survive in Tudor England ? - An online featurette written by Ruth.
  • There's also a little behind the scenes video for Secrets of the Castle. The show's website also includes an "How do you build a medieval castle from scratch ?" page, as well as pages on the Guédelon project and its long-term staff.
    • Some featured clips from the episodes show certain types of work, including hardening metal in the smithie, fashioning a new axe, felling a tree, test-running a newly-built water mill, building a privy, installing a new door, making nails, using markers to draw plans for structures and making paint. There are even one or two period recipes.
  • Virtually each show also has its own companion non-fiction book, with lots of additional material outside of the stuff covered on the show: The Building of the Green Valley: A Reconstruction of an Early 17th-century Rural Landscape, Victorian Farm : Rediscovering Forgotten Skills, Victorian Farm : Christmas Edition, Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Home Remedies and Recipes, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm and Tudor Monastery Farm.
  • Well-known British TV presenter Ben Fogle got to visit the Acton Scott estate during the production of Victorian Farm Christmas and did a little interview with Peter Ginn.
• Scully Box: In one episode of Secrets of the Castle..., Ruth also tries out how fine stonework was made (it was mostly covered by Peter or Tom by that point). Funnily enough, the stonemason demonstrating the process to her puts two wooden beams next to the table, so that Ruth can stand roughly at the same level as he did while he was lightly evening out the surface of the keystone.
• Sleeper Hit: Victorian Farm, the show where the series really took off in popularity, in addition to critical acclaim.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Sort of. In Tudor Monastery Farm, Tom Pinfold replaced Alex Langlands in the main trio of presenters.
  • To date, the series has had five different narrators.
    • Owen Teale narrated Tales from the Green Valley.
    • Stephen Noonan helmed the narration for Victorian Farm, Victorian Pharmacy and Edwardian Farm.
    • John Simm lent his voice to Wartime Farm.
    • Geraldine James narrated Tudor Monastery Farm.
    • Secrets of the Castle... is narrated by none other than Paul McGann.
    • Full Steam Ahead is narrated by Philip Glenister.

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