The Great British Hop

Published: Oct. 13, 2013, 12:15 p.m.

Three decades ago Miles Warde worked on a hop farm in Herefordshire. Split shifts, tractors with lights, and when you weren't sleeping you'd be in the pub. Today that farm is now a vineyard, so the presenter began wondering what had happened to the great British hop.\nThe first thing he discovered is that there are only sixty hop farmers left.\nThe producer is Miles Warde.