Young Black Farmers

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones claims to be the UK’s only black farmer, and he believes the British countryside is far too white. But he’s on a mission to change all that. This three part series follows Wilfred as he takes nine urban recruits on a life transforming journey on his farm in Devon.

In a bid to reverse the segregation that has taken over the countryside and prevented ethnic minorities from settling outside urban Britain, Wilfred is launching a rural scholarship. The Young Black Farmer series documents the first batch of his rural rookies who spend the summer of 2005 living in a converted barn on Wilfred’s remote 30 acre farm and embarking on work experience placements in the local community.

Most of the young apprentices have spent little or no time in the countryside. Although they differ in personality and experience, as a group they all share an overwhelming desire to make a change in their lives and escape their current situation. And the stakes are high - if they make the grade two of the lucky students will be offered a fulfilling job working for Wilfred.

Programme 1:
09:55, 30 November 2005
11:10, 1 March 2006

Can Wilfred's black recruits learn to love the countryside and will the countryside love them back?

Programme 2:
09.55, 1 December 2005
11:10, 2 March 2006

It's been a week of hard graft, early starts and mingling with the mainly white locals and last week the nine became eight when the first recruit was evicted from the scholarship. This week life on Wilfred's farm gets a whole lot tougher and not all the recruits can cope.

Programme 3:
09.55, 2 December 2005
11:10, 3 March 2006

After five weeks of hard graft, early starts and mingling with the mainly white locals, in today's final episode, the remaining six recruits get to find which two of them will get a job in Wilfred's food and farming empire.

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