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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Grave, earnest, epic and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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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
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- Peter MoffatCreator
- Adrian CorkerOriginal Music Composer
- Tim WhitbyProducer
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Seasons
- Series 16 eps · 2013
- Series 26 eps · 2014
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