River Cottage (1999)
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer, and campaigner on food and environmental issues, leaves London to pursue an ambition of self-sufficiency, growing his own vegetables and raising his own animals in Dorset.
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2002-07-18Hugh cooks up a limpet pie and his neighbour Jo Forsey comes to check his sheep stock and declares that at least two are in lamb and that the birth is imminent.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2002-07-25After several days and sleepless nights, Hugh's first ewe finally gives birth to twins - the perfect Easter present.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2002-08-01It's late May, the vet calls and it's bad news: Marge the cow is not as pregnant as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall once thought, there'll be no more lambs and the first batch of eggs are all addled.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2002-08-08Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall invites two local felt-making experts to turn his sheep's fleeces into a fashionable garment. He is asked to make the tea for a cricket match, and ends up having to play.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2002-08-15Hugh's beginning to get the hang of his Dorset down-shifting experiment - or so he thinks. Under the hot summer sun, the animals at River Cottage are giving him considerable grief.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2002-08-22It's high summer and with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's vegetable garden in fine shape he's decided to enter the Vegetable Challenge Cup at his local horticultural show.
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Episode 7 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2002-08-29Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall finds that one of his old ewes has died. It's a sad day at River Cottage as later on he sends two of his pigs to the abattoir.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2002-09-05Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Dorset down-shifting experiment finally comes to an end. As winter draws in, he has one major money-earner up his sleeve.
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Episode 9 - River Cottage Forever - Q&A with Hugh
Release Date: 2002-09-12River Cottage Forever - Q&A with Hugh