Wartime Rations and Black Markets, All Creatures Great and Small Season 4 | MASTERPIECE Studio

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dr. Mark Roodhouse, historical consultant for All Creatures Great & Small, and lecturer in History at the University of York, joins us to discuss his role on the show, and the real-life history behind rationing and black markets in World War II-era Britain.

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0:38.0	It's spring 1940 and the dales are coming back to life after a cold and snowy winter. Flowers popping up through
0:46.0	the thawing ground, children playing, new lambs being born. Signs of promise and new beginnings
0:52.4	fill the countryside. But in the distance, ominous echoes of the war
0:56.7	continue to trickle into this bucolic paradise, and although the war hasn't directly hit the
1:02.0	dales,
1:02.7	its presence can still be felt in the rhythms of daily life.
1:06.6	Even with rationing, you still make the best breakfast
1:08.9	this side of the penins, Mrs. H.
1:11.6	Oos is better on the other side.
1:13.0	That's what I should like to know.
1:15.0	So would I.
1:17.0	While Mrs Hall does her best in the kitchen with wartime rations,
1:20.0	it's still not quite the same. Oh, what a treat, thank you, Mrs. Hall.
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