The Village

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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  David Ryall

  Old Bert Middleton
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  Tom Varey

  Bert Middleton
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  Maxine Peake

  Grace Middleton
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  John Simm

  John Middleton
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  Charlie Murphy

  Martha Allingham
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  Emily Beecham

  Caro Allingham
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  Rupert Evans

  Edmund Allingham
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  Augustus Prew

  George Allingham
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  Juliet Stevenson

  Clem Allingham