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TV series / 1972
Country Matters
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Peter FirthRoger Blackburn · Tommy Adams
Ian McKellenDavid Masterman
Susan PenhaligonIanthe Forrest
Prunella RansomeKatherine Forrest
Marilyn TaylersonJulia Tern
Joe HolmesMr Foulkes
Rosalind AyresAlice Hartop
Ray SmithMr Holland
Brenda BruceMrs Holland
Robert KeeganMr Hartop
Maria CharlesMrs Hartop
Tom ChadbonAlbert
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Penelope WiltonRachel Sullens
Clare SutcliffeLindy Sullens
Gillian MartellMrs Adams
Trevor BannisterArthur Dagnall
Queenie WattsMolly Blatts
James OttawayMr Duffy
John HorsleyJudge
Pauline CollinsRuby
Anna CropperNan
Joss AcklandPotter-Jones
George WaringMr Belfrage
Meg JohnsonBarmaid
Susan FleetwoodMary McDowall
Gareth ThomasFrank Oppidan
John WelshFergus McDowall
Susan TebbsElizabeth Plantney
Carl BernardThorpe
Peter CellierArchibold
Donald EcclesJudge
Kevin LindsayClerk
William SimonsJesse
Rex ArundelDr Ainsworth
Jean RimmerWardress
Morag HoodBreeze Anstey
Meg Wynn OwenLorn
Bernard ArchardVernon
Rachel KempsonMiss Wills
Tenniel EvansMr Harvey
Joan NewellMrs Harvey
Bryan MarshallTom Richards
Barbara EwingEdna Johnson
Michael ElphickJack
Diane KeenGirl in Office
Alistair CookeSelf – Narrator
Stephan ChaseThe Honourable Gerald Laughlin
Jane LapotaireOrianda Crabbe
June WatsonLizzie
Glyn HoustonNathaniel Crabbe
Dorothy BlackLady Tillington
Herbert RamskillPorter
Edward PeelMan in Tap Room
Fred FeastFarmer
Keith DrinkelHarvey Witlow
Mary WimbushMrs Witlow
Jane CarrSophy Daws
Sheila RuskinMary Sadgrove
Rosalie CrutchleyMrs Sadgrove
Daphne HeardCassandra
Michael RaghanAmos
Daphne GoddardAmos' Wife
Philip DunbarBest Man
Maggie FitzgibbonStella Bartholomew
Robert UrquhartBarty Bartholomew
Carolyn CourageChristine
Jeremy BrettCaptain Blaine
Agnes LauchlanAunt Bertie – Miss Charlesworth
Renée AshersonMother
Mary HealeyRuby
Maggie WellsMary
Joanna ShelleyBrenda
Rowland DaviesLt Pascoe
John WellsTrooper Jordan
Freddy MarksJohn
Royston TicknerSgt Hipwell
Peter DudleyBatman
William WymarMr Carter
Nicholas HoyeGeorge Pickard
Cherith MellorKitty
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