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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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the team are hoping that in a few weeks away, their work on the farm will pay off when they bring in the wheat harvest. It's been the wettest summer for a century, and their flags crop has already failed. Everything depends on the success of the wheat. Using a combine harvester will be crucial to getting every last scrap of wheat from the field, a job that in 1945 was more important than ever or through the war. Wheat yields have been rising, but now they started to fall. After five years of record crops, the fertility of Britain's fields was in decline. To compensate, imports would have to increase. But there was a new threat to shipping early in the war. U boats like this destroyed shipping. But in 1945 the Nazis launched a high speed version, posing a major new threat to imports. Braced for a crisis, the government ordered farmers to restore fertility to their fields.