seems to be this series, Tales from the Green Valley, which is as yet UNAVAILABLE in U.S. formats.  Or maybe it is – I’m not really a media geek – yet.  I want to see this!

How do you gauge gas mark 7 when you’re using a 17th century bread oven?
                 Why did people 400 years ago save up their urine to help with the laundry?
                  
Why did farmers in Britain traditionally plough with oxen and not horses?

These are just some of the questions five historians and archaeologists asked themselves as they spent a whole year working a farm restored to how it would have been in the
year 1620.

Seems a lot more interesting, and less soap-opera-y, than the PBS Colonial House, or Ranch House, or Frontier House.