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'Victorian' farm families wanted
Page last updated at 07:28 GMT, Thursday, 29 October 2009
After two successful series of the BBC Wales historical reality show
Coalhouse, a new series is to be set in a Victorian farmhouse in Snowdonia.
The producers are looking for members of the public who want to take part in
Snowdonia Farmhouse.
Two families will travel back in time to 1890 to taste life in slate
quarrying and farming a small holding.
Applications are open for the three week-long series open via email and a
BBC hotline.
Filming for the series starts next March.
The families will experience life as a quarrying family, subsidising their
meagre wages by farming their mountain small-holdings.................
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8330891.stm
There is a webpage about the series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/pages/snowdonia-farmhouse.sh
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Last updated: 27 October 2009
BBC Cymru Wales will be transporting two modern day families back to 1890
for a brand new television series - Snowdonia Farmhouse - and the search is
now on to find people to take part in this unique interactive project.
The series, to be filmed and broadcast in 2010, will take two Welsh families
and immerse them in 19th century life. Living in neighbouring farm cottages
in Snowdonia, the families will face a daily battle for survival. The women
will labour the land, tend the livestock and run the family home while the
men will work in the nearby slate mines. Their trials and tribulations will
mirror the challenges faced by their forefathers over 100 years ago.
Indus Television, the production company behind the successful and ground
breaking Coal House series, is looking forward to hearing from potential
applicants.
Filming will take place during March/April next year but the recruitment of
families starts now.
The closing date for applications is Friday 27 November and shortlisted
applicants will be notified by Friday 4 December.
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Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS