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Country Matters

  • 1972 – 1973
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~1h / ep
  • 2 seasons
  • 4.6/10

An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and rural romance at the turn of the 20th-century. It presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy.

Latest: Series 2 · 1973

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  1. E1. The Little Farm

    Jan 28, 1973 · 60m

    Illiterate farmer Tom Richards advertises for a housekeeper. Edna Johnson takes the post and they seem destined for happiness until they encounter the destructive forces of jealousy.

  2. E2. The Black Dog

    Feb 4, 1973 · 60m

    The Honourable Gerald Laughlin finds himself locked in a power struggle between Nathaniel Crabbe's daughter, Orianda, and Crabbe's mistress Lizzie, under the roof of his inn the Black Dog.

  3. E3. The Higgler

    Feb 11, 1972 · 60m

    Harvey Witlow's mother cannot understand why Harvey has chosen to stand by his longtime sweetheart Sophy Daws and reject the advances of well-to-do Mary.

  4. E4. The Simple Life

    Feb 18, 1973 · 60m

    Stella Bartholomew is disillusioned with her husband's weekend obsession with the 'simple life' at their country retreat, until Roger comes to help around the house.

  5. E5. An Aspidistra in Babylon

    Feb 25, 1973 · 60m

    Dover, summer 1919: Christine's mother runs a boarding house, in which Christine feels like the dull aspidistras which clutter the rooms, until the dashing Captain Blaine arrives to find rooms for his rich aunt. Christine falls in love for the first time, and undergoes a jarring change from innocence to corruption.

  6. E6. The Ring of Truth

    Mar 4, 1973 · 60m

    Following his father's death, George Pickard has a strange dream where his father tells him he's travelling to the small town of Skelby Moor, where he learns both the positives and negatives of his lineage.

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