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Brensham People: With Richard Warwick, Denis Carey, Dominic Long, Freddie Jones. Life in a Gloucestershire town.
- (5)
- 1976-12-03
- Drama, History
- 50
Landing at Normandy, John Moore thinks back to his childhood, in Brensham, and his teacher Mr. Chorlton, who argued with the vicar about Communism. Ten years on, he is fighting the council and the syndicate, who are buying up public land.
John Cecil Moore (10 November 1907 – 27 July 1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation.
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Brensham People. 1976. Drama/History. Browse Episodes. Season 1. 3. William Hart, Wainwright. 2. Master of Many Parts. 1. Going, Going, Gone. Cast.
Jan 1, 1985 · Written betwen 1945 and 1948, they all deal with the same part of England—the old town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire and its surrounding villages—at a time of deliberate political change, and were hailed immediately as authentic pictures of English small-town rural life.
John Moore's village of Brensham is seen through the same kind of wishful specs, I think - from its misty blossoms to its floods, the genial drunkenness of the Colonel, the courtesy of the poverty-stricken 'mad lord', the respectful disagreement between the socialist blacksmith, Briggs, and Mr Chorlton, the classicist, who 'believed that ...
