Season 1
Overview
The story of 20th Century England is played out through a family in a Derbyshire village.
Episodes
1. 1
2013-03-31
Bert is the second oldest man in Britain, and a film is being made about his life and his village. He takes us back to the summer of 1914, when he was 12 years old.
2. 2
2013-04-07
It is January 1915; the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times, and John is drinking heavily. A strange incident then takes place at the manor house.
3. 3
2013-04-14
Conscription is introduced for the first time in British history. Call up papers are delivered throughout the village, and soldiers requisition Big Molly.
4. 4
2013-04-21
Bert decides that winning the Rondo, an annual wheel barrow race on the cricket field, is a matter of life or death: if he wins, then Joe will be kept safe.
5. 5
2013-04-28
Joe's brief leave is over. He has tried hard to conceal his shell shock but Grace knows that something is wrong. Bert's actions have disastrous consequences for the family.
6. 6
2013-05-05
The war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The debate over how best to honour their dead divides the community.