Our Great Yorkshire Life review: The champion farmer who shows Clarkson and co how it's really done, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS By Christopher Stevens Published: 17:01 EDT, 25 June 2024 | Updated: 17:01 EDT, 25 June 2024 e-mail 16 shares View comments Our Great Yorkshire Life (Ch5) Rating: Rock stars need not apply. Real farming, it turns out, is not a suitable job for wealthy amateurs or faded celebs looking for ways to fill their time before retirement. Jeremy Clarkson 's show on Amazon Prime Video has fostered the notion that all you need to work the land is a Lamborghini tractor and some help from famous mates.
It's a bit of a laugh, with plenty of knockabout and slapstick as you chase the piglets and fall backwards into a blackberry bush. And it all takes place on a bucolic estate with a suitably suggestive name, like Wobbly Bottom or Futtock's Grange. Modern-day media gentry and pop millionaires might get all the publicity, but the real rural work is done by people like Stephen Short, steeped in four generations of farming tradition.
Modern-day media gentry and pop millionaires might get all the publicity, but the real rural work is done by people like Stephen Short, steeped in four generations of farming tradition Clarkson is always banging on about how important agriculture is to the national economy, but for Britain's small farmers, it's more personal than that Stephen is a sheep farmer on the hills outside Halifax and, at just 25, has taken the champion's rosette at.