After two successful series of the BBC Wales historical reality show Coalhouse, a third series is to be set in a Victorian farmhouse in Snowdonia.The producers are looking for members of the public who want to take part in Snowdonia Farmhouse.Two families will travel back in time to 1890 to taste life in slate quarrying and farming a small holding.
BBC Cymru Wales will be transporting two modern day families back to 1890 for a brand new television series - Snowdonia Farmhouse - and the search is now on to find people to take part in this unique interactive project.The series, to be filmed and broadcast in 2010, will take two Welsh families and immerse them in 19th century life. Living in neighbouring farm cottages in Snowdonia, the families will face a daily battle for survival. The women will labour the land, tend the livestock and run the family home while the men will work in the nearby slate mines. Their trials and tribulations will mirror the challenges faced by their forefathers over 100 years ago.
I imagine it will probably focus more on top-side sort of work, slate-trimming, that sort of stuff. I hope anyway, that the BBC don't go down the Big Brother route... "today's task is to extract 5 tonnes of slate, else you don't get any food..."