The Village (2013)
| First Air Date: | 2013, March 31 |
| Last Air Date: | 2014, September 14 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 2 |
| Episodes: | 12 |
| Episode Runtime: | 60 min |
| Created by: | Peter Moffat |
| Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Production: | Company Pictures |
| Cast: | David Ryall, Emily Beecham, Maxine Peake, Scott Handy, Charlie Murphy, Rupert Evans, Phoebe Dynevor, Joe Armstrong, Derek Riddell, Matt Stokoe, Augustus Prew, Annabelle Apsion |
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.