Akenfield
18/11/1974
2h
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
Cast
Stanley Baxter
Blacksmith
Ronald Blythe
The Vicar
Ethel Branton
Mrs. Quantrill
Lyn Brooks
Charlotte Rouse
Garrow Shand
Tom Rouse
Peggy Cole
Dulcie Rouse
Barbara Tilney
Jean Quantrill
Ida Page
Aunt Ida
Ted Dedman
Ted
Mollie Dedman
Mollie
Charlie Cornish
Charlie
Charlie Whiting
Charlie
Robin Buckingham
Robin
Alan Wright
Young Tom Rouse
Mary Hammond
Young Dulcie Rouse
F.O. Staddon
The Minister
Bob Wilson
Farmer
Reg Hall
Policeman
Peter Tuddenham
Old Tom (voiceover)
Clifford Arbon
Ernie Cole
Ray Cornish
Victoria Peacock
Barry Martin
Neil Scopes
John Simpson
Ron Wood
Sidney Bedwell
Andy Chenery
Allan Cole
David Cole
John Meek
Walter Whatling
Roger Clark
Sean Wood
Wilfred Frost
Roger Burroughes
Jonathan Fox
Monty Hale
Phyllis Grout
Mark Thorpe
Fred Collins
Lucy Dedman
David Dedman
Helen Tydeman
Arthur Smith
Margaret Allen
Erica Zant-Boer
Violet Smith
Ena Bower
Claire Bateson
Kenneth Runnacles
Sarah Noakes
Romy Jacob
Cecil Barrell
Eunice Carpenter
Gladys de Brisay
Wendy Keable
Joan Piper
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