{"id":5913,"date":"2026-09-15T21:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1970-living-off-the-land-farming-in-britain-the-philpott-file-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:18:42","slug":"1970-living-off-the-land-farming-in-britain-the-philpott-file-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1970-living-off-the-land-farming-in-britain-the-philpott-file-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1970: Living off the Land &#8211; Farming in Britain | The Philpott File | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6G0AKF-kS4o?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Famers claim that there is no longer a fair living to be made off the land. Yet good farm land is now so expensive that a farmer must be either a very rich or very brave man.<\/p>\n<p>Living Off the Land is a study of some of the richest and some of the bravest men who choose to live by farming Britain&#8217;s pricey soil. The film contrasts the lives of two small men trying to make a go in mid-Wales and three of the biggest farmers in Britain &#8211; with huge acreages in Lincolnshire, large personal establishments, and complex business organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The experiences of these five help to throw some light on the difficulties facing farming today.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from The Philpott File: Living Off the Land, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 31 January, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6G0AKF-kS4o\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famers claim that there is no longer a fair living to be made off the land. Yet good farm land is now so expensive that a farmer must be either a very rich or very brave man. Living Off the Land is a study of some of the richest and some of the bravest men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":5914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10957,11707,3227,11714,11718,1023,1019,15,1022,11711,1021,1020,11710,11721,11715,11716,1026,11712,11713,1025,11720,11723,1027,11722,1024,11708,11709,1028,11719,11717],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1970s","tag-1970s-farming","tag-1970s-nostalgia","tag-70s-agriculture","tag-70s-farmers","tag-archive","tag-archive-bbc","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-archive","tag-british-farms","tag-british-tv-nostalgia","tag-classic-tv","tag-farming-in-britain","tag-farming-in-wales","tag-farming-industry-uk","tag-how-to-run-a-farm","tag-legendary-television","tag-lincolnshire","tag-lincolnshire-farms","tag-nostalgia","tag-old-bbc-farming-programme","tag-old-bbc-programme","tag-retro-tv","tag-small-farms","tag-the-bbc-archive","tag-the-philpott-file","tag-trevor-philpott-documentary","tag-vintage","tag-wales-1970s","tag-welsh-farms-1970s","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}