Ⓓ ' Our Village '
' Spring comes to the Village'
Written for broadcasting by EDITH E. MACQLEEN , Ph.D.
2.25 Interval Music
2.30 British History
From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
' Crops and Enclosures ' A dramatic interlude by RHODA POWER
Today's broadcast will tell you of the efforts made to produce more food for a growing population, how people began to listen, sometimes willingly, sometimes unwillingly, to new ideas about the rotation of crops, and how the system of open fields was gradually giving place to enclosed farms.