The Great British Hop

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 976 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Three decades ago Miles Warde worked on a hop farm in Herefordshire. Split shifts, tractors with lights, and when you weren't sleeping you'd be in the pub. Today that farm is now a vineyard, so the presenter began wondering what had happened to the great British hop. The first thing he discovered is that there are only sixty hop farmers left. The producer is Miles Warde.

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0:57.5	Welcome to a program about beer and about pots.
1:03.2	Down in the home yard comes an old come rain.
1:10.1	The drones in his nest but he can't fly away
1:15.0	The tractors keep coming for load after load
1:20.0	And the vine cutters sharpen their knives off their
1:24.9	show.
1:26.9	30 years ago you'd have found me out in these fields, yards in Hop speak,
1:30.9	helping with the harvest amidst these knotty Herefordshire hills.
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