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Gloucestershire Cheese-Rolling

Meet the farmer who makes the cheese used in one of Britain's most eccentric traditions and follow the process from morning milking to the bottom of the hill.

Rod Smart and his family make traditional Single and Double Gloucester Cheese on their small dairy farm in Gloucestershire. It takes months of work to create the finished product. But after all that, some of his cheeses end up being thrown down a steep hill and chased after by people from all over the world in one of Britain's most eccentric traditions - Cheese-Rolling.

Producer: Heather Simons.

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22 minutes

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Sun 22 Jul 2018 06:35

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  • Sun 22 Jul 2018 06:35