Off The Beaten Track With Kate HumbleSeason 2, Episode 4 - Ep 4

In West Wales, Kate meets the last Master Thatcher based in Wales, starting in Newport Pembs, she helps with the harvesting of water reeds, an invasive, thick grass-like plant now used on 80 per cent of thatched roofs in the UK; she then travels to Merthyr Mawr to learn that protected, historical buildings are thatched with heritage wheat straw.

Off The Beaten Track With Kate Humble was broadcast on SBS ONE at Thursday 28 September 2023, 02:00.