Does anybody love these programmes? I watched the first episode of Back in Time for the Weekend on iPlayer yesterday and, as always, found it absolutely fascinating.
For those that aren't familiar with them, they are programmes where a family lives through former decades & experiences life at the time. For this series they are exploring the changes in leisure time.
The episode I watched was based in 1950s & it seemed like a pretty awful time to be a woman,especially at the beginning of the decade. 11 hours per day doing household chores & even the evening was spent mending & darning. No machines to help so all done by hand & fewer ingredients available too, as it was post-war. Fascinating stuff & makes me realise how lucky we are, even with Covid etc.