Bert and Grace are anxious about what John might say if he recovers his power of speech.

Bert and Eyre are arrested and George Allingham's principles will decide their fate.

The war is over, and the village tries to come to terms with its loss. The debate over how best to honour their dead divides the community.

The villagers protest when their traditional paths are blocked by the Big House.

Bert is the second oldest man in Britain, and a film is being made about his life and his village. He takes us back to the summer of 1914, when he was 12 years old.

Bert decides that winning the Rondo, an annual wheel barrow race on the cricket field, is a matter of life or death: if he wins, then Joe will be kept safe.

It is January 1915; the Middleton farm has fallen on very hard times, and John is drinking heavily. A strange incident then takes place at the manor house.

Hankin opens a dance hall, and the villagers take their partners by the hands. Bert's childhood crush on Martha Allingham blinds him to the reality of Phoebe's affection for him.