Big Barn Farm

The programme is set on a farm and follows the adventures of four young animals: Petal the piglet, Gobo the goat, Dash the donkey and Digger the puppy, who are called the farmyard bunch. The storylines are told from the young animals' point of view and revolve around their emotions and the situations they find themselves in. Before the show airs, the CBeebies presenter may encourage the young viewers to sing along with the theme song, which is generally sung very fast and provides some basic information about each of the main characters. The closing song is similar, but longer and details all of the animal characters, including the minor ones. ==Characters==

The farmyard bunch • Dash (voiced by Ben Fairman) is a young male donkey. and the farmer's daughter (played by Katie Parks). ==Production==

Big Barn Farm was created and produced by The Foundation, which is part of the RDF Media group, the programme combines footage of real animals with animation. The visual effects were created by Ian Carley, at iCarley Media, and James Kearsley, at JK Studios, using 450 individual shots of talking animals. The Executive Producer for Cbeebies was Sarah Colclough. The set was created around a flint stable block and a barn which were not part of a real working farm. The animals lived on set or nearby during filming. ==Episodes==

A Christmas special is in development and will parody Nativity!. ==Home media==

A DVD of Big Barn Farm, titled "Welcome to Big Barn Farm" was released on 17 November 2008. == Spin-off ==

A spin-off titled Big Barn City is in development, where the farm animals (except the minor ones) and the farmers moving into a city. ==Academic analysis==

Professor Steven Fielding of the University of Nottingham analyses the political themes of the episode "Lester the Leader" in his 2014 work A State of Play, which examines how people's views on politics are constructed by fictional representations of politics. ==References==