0.0Following on from the hugely popular Out of Town, Old Country saw Jack Hargreaves continue his exploration of rural life in Thomas Hardy country – reflecting on its character, traditions, history and folklore, and the skills that had passed from generation to generation.
Jack Hargreaves
Channel 4
1. Walking Sticks / Hurdle Maker
Jack discusses the nuances of walking sticks, where one might acquire a proper one, or how one could craft one from an appropriate plant in a copse. He goes on to elucidate the importance of copses to the farm. There is a demonstration of the building of a wattle hurdle from wood found in such copses, and the importance therein is portrayed.
2. Mayfly Trout / Todber Stone
3. Stow Fair / Flat Cart
4. Garden / Cut Mill
5. Harnessing a Horse / Decent Dog
6. Sheepfair / Dabchick
7. Fishing Rod / Morey's Lake
8. Tarrant Valley / Circus
9. Lurchers - Rabbiting
10. Cutting up a Pig
11. Downland - Cattle Breeds
12. Trolley Drive - Fiddleford Mill
13. Pony Drift - Goats
14. Brittany Spaniels
15. Bygones
16. Driving - Bygones
17. Steam Plough - Terrier Show
18. Pigeon - Sturminster Mill
19. Thatching Reed - Hound Show
20. Pack Pony - Turk's Pond
