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Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and TomBehind the Scenes: Guédelon Castle

Meet the team who turn back the clock to learn the skills of medieval castle builders.

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Believe it or not this is what a medieval sound recordist looks like..

Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom

  • One of Guedelon's wooden treadwheels, with wooden scaffolding behind
  • Backstage with the trebuchet
  • Stonemason Philippe Delage gets his beard caught in the grinding gear at the water mill
  • Believe it or not this is what a medieval sound recordist looks like..
  • Peter Ginn tries chiselling stone in the stonemason's lodge
  • Trouble at water mill
  • The old and the new
  • Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn walking round the castle walls
  • Ruth by the medieval hovel where she has set up home
  • Guedelon Castle in the morning
  • Ruth uses a stone quern to grind wheat and barley into flour, flour was too expensive for workers to buy ready-made

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