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Life on a wartime farm - 'who would run the farm if my father had to go to war?'

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Life on a wartime farm - 'who would run the farm if my father had to go to war?'

Michael Edwards was just a young boy when war broke out. As V.E. Day approaches, here he tells historian Olivia Smith about what it was like to grow up on a farm during the 1940s. Michael Edwards and...

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