DALES cheese specialist The Wensleydale Creamery is to feature in a national television programme charting how Britain has changed during the last hundred years.

The firm will be shown on ‘Making Britain Count’, at 9.15pm, next Wednesday, March 30, on BBC One.

Each episode focuses on two decades from 1901 to the present day, and will cover themes such as property, employment, social conditions, education, cost of living, leisure, national identity, marriage, and family dynamics.

The broadcasts will be aired to coincide with this month’s Census, and will reveal how Britain has developed and changed since the Census was first introduced.

Alongside its major themes, the programme will also include smaller films to give viewers a better understanding of how their ancestors lived. One of these will be a potted history of cheese throughout the century including cheese rationing during the war and how cheese packaging and products have developed.

The Wensleydale Creamery has provided photographs and film footage of milk being collected from farms across the Dales and of its cheese-making processes from yesteryear and the present day.

The Wensleydale Creamery’s managing director David Hartley said: “We are proud of the provenance and heritage of real Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese, which dates back to 1150. Therefore, it is fitting that we should be featured as part of a programme looking at the history of cheese.”