Mastercrafts series on the BBC

In a new series on BBC2, Monty Don celebrates six craft skills that take the long tradition of craft into the modern world.

Each week, three hopeful participants are taught the skills involved in a specific heritage craft, and are "put through their paces by the country's leading practitioners of wood craft, metalwork, thatching, stonemasonry, weaving and stained glass. After six weeks of apprenticeship and labour, their work and achievements are judged by experts in their chosen field to see who has best mastered the craft."

The programmes aired so far focus on Green Wood Craft, Thatching, and Blacksmithing.

Watch Mastercrafts on the BBC iPlayer (UK only).