The Land

In the heat of World War Two, 300,000 `unproductive' farms were commandeered by the government and tightly regimented to increase their output. In the second episode of BBC Two's companion series, the show discovers how this intensive form of agriculture, which would later become standard practice, has shaped the modern British landscape.

Door middel van uitgebreide luchtfotografie uit de jaren 40 van East Anglia word de situatie van toen met die van nu vergeleken.