Old English Traditional Cider Making — And Avoiding the Dangers of Slurry

In this episode, Jack Hargreaves revisits the old English tradition of making cider — from battered horn beakers and enamel baths to a wooden press salvaged from a manor house, its great screws likely carved centuries ago by monks.

Then the story shifts — to a very modern rural issue: how today’s industrialised slurry systems are damaging cows’ feet. Jack follows a cattle chiropodist — a skilled dairyman turned foot surgeon — who travels farm to farm treating the hidden injuries caused by a system that didn’t exist in Jack’s youth.

Two stories from the countryside — one rooted in tradition, the other in today’s quiet crises.

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