Man Alive

Pity the Poor Farmer? (1970x5)

Data emisji: Mar 04, 1970

One swallow doesn't make a summer, and one bad harvest can no longer be carried by a good one - or so the farmers say. Up to the end of the 1950s everyone thought that the farmer kept his pigs in the Rolls - that both animals and owners were fed with a silver spoon. Why now has the cacophony of the farmyard come to Whitehall? Is the farmers' protest a real one, or are they just joining the bandwagon of those demanding more money? Are there many earning fivepence an hour for a 100-hour week?