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Caz Graham meets actors-turned-farmers Kelvin and Liz Fletcher on their family farm in the Peak District National Park. Kelvin played fictional farmer Andy Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale for 20 years and won Strictly Come Dancing in 2019 with his dance partner Oti Mabuse.

By 2020 Kelvin and Liz were ready for their next adventure and were all set to move to California with their two children, when the Covid pandemic and lockdown scuppered their plans. After Kelvin spotted a farm for sale on the Derbyshire-Cheshire border, they decided to pursue a whole different kind of adventure and become first-time farmers. Three years on, the couple are running a 120-acre farm with sheep, pigs, goats, alpacas and horses - as well as filming their own television series, ITV's Fletcher's Family Farm. They're also now raising four children, after the arrival of twins in 2022.

Kelvin and Liz chat to Caz about leaving soap land, talk about how being new-entrants to agriculture makes it easier to focus on the positives rather than dwelling on the hardships, and explain how Strictly was good preparation for catching sheep.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones.