Green Aura wrote: they couldn't get a real flavour of how life was in those times if they were working in modern synthetic fleeces and jeans.
oh that reminds me... washing a sheeps fleece. just pop it in a stream, pound it about it a bit and then pop it in the sun for a couple of hours. job done. er. no. that wont clean it much, and drying a whole soggy fleece will take days and days. spect they threw that one away after they finished messing with it.
cut to the mill (i love cold harbour mill) and suddenly the fleece is whiter than white....
i like to watch factual programs, but when i know they are not getting the facts right in areas I do know something about - even little things like the right mess she made of making brawn in the last series, including a lot of shrieking about sticking a pig's eye in the sloppy disaster she dished up, and no doubt giving the a false idea of it to loads of viewers who will now never touch the stuff, let alone have a go at making it, having seen the program - well then i doubt the rest of the program.
yes im grumpy about it. i think they had a great opportunity, and not done it right.