A Yesterday's Witness series of six programmes with women of the First World War.
2: Down on the Farm
' Weeds, like U Boats, must be exterminated' says one of the more gentle captions in a remarkable recruiting film made in 1917 to try to persuade the women of Britain to join the Women's Land Army.
In this programme, scenes from that propaganda film give us the official version of what life was like down on the farm during the Great War. But six of the original Land Girls themselves tell us what it was really like to leave home or escape from the slavery of domestic service - and then be confronted by the glamour of the pigsty and the milking shed. Narrator TONY BILBOW
Film editor MIKE APPELT Producer STEPHEN PEET