Helen Thornhill and Rosemary Leach star in this classic BBC drama, based on novel by Laurie Lee. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy Cotswold village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny Wallon (Mary Merrall)'s homebrew gives way to a darker vision of country life. As a young boy suffers at the hands of a sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he then experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Thornhill).

Starring:

Rosemary Leach, Stephen Grendon, Philip Hawkes, Peter Chandler, Andrew Webber, Jonathan Green, Frances Lee, Tania Robinson, Louisa Martin, Trevor Bannister, Stephen Keavy, Andrew Davis, Mark Parker, Helen Thornhill, Sally Ann Tyler

Genre:

Drama