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Tudor Monastery Farm

2013 · 1 season

A gentle, hands-on time-travel into muddy daily labour, where curiosity and craft replace drama and you simply enjoy learning how things were made.

Created by: Giulia Clark, Stuart Elliott
Genres: Documentary, Reality
Starring: Tom Pinfold, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

Overview: Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.

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Created by: Giulia Clark, Stuart Elliott
Genres: Documentary, Reality
Starring: Tom Pinfold, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
faith
nature
family
education
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: family
Form: documentary
true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	3
Realism	9
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Tension	1
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Complexity	3
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Genres: documentary, reality
Created by: Giulia Clark, Stuart Elliott
Starring: Tom Pinfold, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
Length: 1 seasons, 6 episodes, 60 min each
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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