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Akenfield? The BBC still show it occasionally, tho' these days on BBC4....
Can anyone remember please the name of a TV series shown Sunday evening during December 1999 about life in the British country side, during the early part of the 1900s? The series included a number of interviews with now elderly people from up and down the country who had lived a rural life in the early and mid part of the last century, including the war years. I thought the prog a very sensitive and beautiful production.
Akenfield? The BBC still show it occasionally, tho' these days on BBC4....
It does sound like Akenfield to me. I remember it being very well made as well
I'm pretty sure that what you describe is Green and Pleasant Land and was shown on C4 in 1999. I have this on DVD if you're interested - it exactly fits your description...
I have a documentary called The Land of Lost Content which sounds similar though I think the above suggestions of Akenfield (wonderful book) are more likely.
Akenfield was a single filmed drama based on a factual book, based on one Suffolk location, and was made in 1974. Not by any stretch of the imagination likely to resemble a TV documentary series from 1999 that featured interviewees from up and down the country!
name='sallylong']Can anyone remember please the name of a TV series shown Sunday evening during December 1999 about life in the British country side, during the early part of the 1900s? The series included a number of interviews with now elderly people from up and down the country who had lived a rural life in the early and mid part of the last century, including the war years. I thought the prog a very sensitive and beautiful production.
I'm with Captain Oates on this and also think you mean Green And Pleasant Land (not to be confused with the early Lindsay Anderson film!). The description here of the book of the series might help convince you:
http://amazon.co,uk/Green-Pleasant-L...dp/0752272500/
name='sallylong']Can anyone remember please the name of a TV series shown Sunday evening during December 1999 about life in the British country side, during the early part of the 1900s? The series included a number of interviews with now elderly people from up and down the country who had lived a rural life in the early and mid part of the last century, including the war years. I thought the prog a very sensitive and beautiful production.
I agree with two other members that it is indeed Green and Pleasant Land shown on Channel 4 in 1999 because I have a copy of the book which accompanied the series. Then published by Macmillan books (through their channel 4 books series) ISBN0752217844. Ackenfield was a fine documentary in its own right but was an earlier tv production.
It was as you say, a very poignant and beautifully made series showing true British grit for getting on with life however hard. We folk today can hardly say we are made of the same stuff can we?
Maralyn
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