Farming Today This Week

The UK has a growing list of traditional trades at risk of disappearing. To combat that, the Government has announced a review into the shortage of craft skills, and the heritage lottery fund has pledged more than £13millon for training the next generation of craft workers. It is estimated there are only a handful of people left who know who to make swill baskets, sieve and riddles and wooden ladders using age-old methods. Sarah Swadling is at the Royal Cornwall Show meeting the blacksmiths, wheelwrights and thatchers to find out if these artisan techniques have a place in modern British manufacturing.

Presented by Sarah Swadling and produced by Angela Frain.