Peter Moffat's epic Sunday night drama starring Maxine Peake and John Simm will return in 2014

Surely if we’re looking at the struggles of family life in the last century, older characters deserve a look-in? says David Butcher

An hour of those pinched, pained faces and you yearn for Call the Midwife’s perky physicians or Downton’s soapy plots, says Ellie Walker-Arnott

"I hope The Village will succeed because the generation who can tell us about what we were then won’t be with us much longer..." says creator Peter Moffat

Juliet Stevenson and Rupert Evans also star in the drama which charts one rural English village across the twentieth century

John Simm, Maxine Peake, Nico Mirallegro and Juliet Stevenson star in BBC1's new epic drama series

Shooting on the new Brit film with Silk actress and Inbetweeners star began today in London - and will continue until April

The creator of the BBC Audio Drama of the year talks about his long road to writing success

"I wanted to write about this woman, about how difficult it must have been for her in the late 50s and 60s to be a sportswoman..."

"Epic series" written by Peter Moffat will chart the life and turbulent times of one English village across the whole of the 20th Century