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.

Roughly 12h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 12 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 60 minutes.

Series cast and crew

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  David RyallOld Bert Middleton
  12 episodes

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  Maxine PeakeGrace Middleton
  12 episodes

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  John SimmJohn Middleton
  12 episodes

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  Charlie MurphyMartha Allingham
  12 episodes

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  Emily BeechamCaro Allingham
  12 episodes

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  Rupert EvansEdmund Allingham
  12 episodes

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  Augustus PrewGeorge Allingham
  12 episodes

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  Juliet StevensonClem Allingham
  12 episodes

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  Annabelle ApsionMargaret Boden
  12 episodes

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  Anthony FlanaganArnold Hankin
  12 episodes

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  Joe ArmstrongBairstow
  11 episodes

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  Scott HandyRobin Lane
  11 episodes

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  Jim CartwrightPeter the Landlord
  11 episodes

• 

  Matt StokoeGerald Eyre
  10 episodes

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  Chloe HarrisAgnes Hankin
  10 episodes

• 

  Ainsley HowardNorma Hankin
  9 episodes

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  Amelia YoungPolly
  7 episodes

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  Tom VareyBert Middleton
  6 episodes

Created by

Peter Moffat

Network

BBC One

Seasons and episodes

• Series 12013 · 6 episodes
• Series 22014 · 6 episodes