Developed from “A Shepherd’s life” by W.H. Hudson this five part series tells the story of a peasant community’s life in the years after Waterloo, leading up to the ‘Captain Swing’ peasant revolt in the 1820’s. “A Shepherd’s life” was written around the oral folk history of the period, as told to Hudson, and the characters in “Bread or Blood” are based upon the Thinly sketched lives of real people mentioned in the book. What is the significance of the program for input? The authentication of an alternative historical perspective. The presentation of little known history using the people, rather than the formal traditional historian. ‘History is usually written by the victors’ and this can be true in a national as well as an international context.