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The Village (2013)

7.3 2 seasons 12 episodes Ended

Drama

The Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended as a 42-hour televised epic—the first series covers 1914 to 1920; the second continued the story into the 1920s. However, it was not commissioned for a third series. An epic drama charting the turbulent times experienced by one English village throughout the 20th century; births, deaths, political events and rebellions are among the events that occur during the time. Bert Middleton lives across the entire 100-year period, and his story from boyhood to old age forms the crux of the story, seen via flashbacks as Bert is interviewed in the present day by a documentarian working on a project about the second eldest man in the United Kingdom and his village.

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Seasons & episodes

Episode 1Mar 31, 2013 · 1h 1m

Bert is the second oldest man in Britain, and a film is being made about his life and his village. He takes us back to the summer of 1914,…

Episode 2Apr 7, 2013 · 1h 1m

It is January 1915; the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times, and John is drinking heavily. A strange incident then takes place at…

Episode 3Apr 14, 2013 · 1h 1m

Conscription is introduced for the first time in British history. Call up papers are delivered throughout the village, and soldiers requisi…

Episode 4Apr 21, 2013 · 1h 1m

Bert decides that winning the Rondo, an annual wheel barrow race on the cricket field, is a matter of life or death: if he wins, then Joe w…

Episode 5Apr 28, 2013 · 1h 1m

Joe's brief leave is over. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock but Grace knows that something is wrong. Bert's actions have disast…

Episode 6May 5, 2013 · 1h 1m

The war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The debate over how best to honour their dead divides the community.

Cast

David RyallOld Bert Middleton

Tom VareyBert Middleton

Maxine PeakeGrace Middleton

John SimmJohn Middleton

Charlie MurphyMartha Allingham

Emily BeechamCaro Allingham

Rupert EvansEdmund Allingham

Augustus PrewGeorge Allingham

Juliet StevensonClem Allingham

Annabelle ApsionMargaret Boden

Anthony FlanaganArnold Hankin

Ainsley HowardNorma Hankin

Joe ArmstrongBairstow

Scott HandyRobin Lane