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Farming Today: Away in a Manger - Farmyard Nativity

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25/12/2014

Away in a Manger - Farmyard Nativity

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Away in a Manger - Farmyard Nativity

A special Christmas morning show from the nativity staged in a barn on a Devon dairy farm.

For Christmas morning, Farming Today joins farmers, children and parishioners for their nativity being staged in a barn at a dairy farm in Bittadon, near Barnstaple in Devon.

For a special Christmas morning programme, Farming Today joins farmers, children and parishioners for the annual Bittadon nativity staged in a barn at a dairy farm.

Church Farm nestles between Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Devon coast and has been in the Houlton family for three generations. They produce milk, butter and traditional clotted Devon cream.


Each year after the afternoon milking on a night just before Christmas; the Houltons are joined by 300 people for a nativity play in one of their barns.

Children, animals and local parishioners keep the spirit of Christmas alive by re-enacting the Christmas story where it all began - it a lowly cowshed.

Produced by Sybil Ruscoe.

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