The camera never leaves the village. Births, deaths, love and betrayal, great
political events, upheavals in national identity, ways of working, rules kept
and rebellions made, sex, religion, class, the shaping of modern memory – all
refracted through the lives of the villagers and the village.
One man, Bert Middleton lives across the entire hundred years and his life story from boyhood to extreme old age provides the narrative backbone. His last great
act of remembering is our way in to an examination of our recent past.
The series begins in 1914. Young Bert Middleton (introducing Bill Jones) is
growing up in extreme poverty on a family farm in Derbyshire. His parents John (John Simm – State of Play, The Devil’s Whore) and Grace (Maxine Peake – Silk,
Criminal Justice, Shameless) struggle to provide for Bert and his adored older
brother Joe (Nico Mirallegro – My Fat Mad Teenage Diary, Upstairs Downstairs).
John is proud, unyielding and haunted by his past. Grace devotes her life to
protecting her sons from the violence of his despair. Is her sacrifice
sustainable? Is John capable of redemption? Will Bert’s funny, gentle ways and
rich imagination survive? Joe supplements the family income by working at the
Big House, where he comes into contact with the troubled and deeply unstable
Caro (Emily Beecham – The Runaway).
political events, upheavals in national identity, ways of working, rules kept
and rebellions made, sex, religion, class, the shaping of modern memory – all
refracted through the lives of the villagers and the village.
One man, Bert Middleton lives across the entire hundred years and his life story from boyhood to extreme old age provides the narrative backbone. His last great
act of remembering is our way in to an examination of our recent past.
The series begins in 1914. Young Bert Middleton (introducing Bill Jones) is
growing up in extreme poverty on a family farm in Derbyshire. His parents John (John Simm – State of Play, The Devil’s Whore) and Grace (Maxine Peake – Silk,
Criminal Justice, Shameless) struggle to provide for Bert and his adored older
brother Joe (Nico Mirallegro – My Fat Mad Teenage Diary, Upstairs Downstairs).
John is proud, unyielding and haunted by his past. Grace devotes her life to
protecting her sons from the violence of his despair. Is her sacrifice
sustainable? Is John capable of redemption? Will Bert’s funny, gentle ways and
rich imagination survive? Joe supplements the family income by working at the
Big House, where he comes into contact with the troubled and deeply unstable
Caro (Emily Beecham – The Runaway).
无距之境
如此之久了，算不算迟到、
