The Village

Overview

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.

Cast

David Ryall

Old Bert Middleton

Tom Varey

Bert Middleton

Maxine Peake

Grace Middleton

John Simm

John Middleton

Charlie Murphy

Martha Allingham

Emily Beecham

Caro Allingham

Rupert Evans

Edmund Allingham

Augustus Prew

George Allingham

Juliet Stevenson

Clem Allingham

Annabelle Apsion

Margaret Boden

Anthony Flanagan

Arnold Hankin

Ainsley Howard

Norma Hankin