LARK RISE TO CANDELFORD: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Lark Rise To Candleford, adapted from Flora Thompson’s memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, presents a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.; ; Set in the Oxfordshire countryside the end of the 19th Century, this rich, funny and emotional series follows the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry in two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, the small hamlet, gently holding on to the past and Candleford, the neighboring market town, bustling into the future.; ; When the young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the local post office in Candleford, it feels as if she is departing to a different country. Her new life under the wing of the independent and effervescent post-mistress, Dorcas Lane, is eye-opening and exciting, but as Laura witnesses the scandals, feuds and straggles of the villagers and townsfolk, she realizes that she too has to face the future. Having turned her back on her childhood hamlet, she must find her own path to womanhood...;
• Cast: Olivia Hallinan, Sarah Lancashire, Julia Sawalha, Fergus Drysdale, Martha Murdoch, Claudie Blakley, John Dagleish, Thomas Rhys Jones, Mark Heap, Karl Johnson, Linda Bassett, Matilda Ziegler, Sophie Miles, Hope Yeomans, Brendan Coyle, Victoria Hamilton, Sandy McDade, Ruby Bentall, Harry Miles, Ben Aldridge, Edward Darnell-Hayes, Jason Merrells, Olivia Grant, Stephen Marcus, Ben Miles, Liz Smith, Caitlin Smith, Dawn French, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Richard Harrington, Gerard Horan, Matthew McNulty, Milly Taylor, Lucy Dawson, Christina Ford, Rebecca Night, Fionnula Tambling-Goggin, Cassie, Joseph Kloska, Grace Thomas Oxenham, Jason Watkins, Paul Reynolds, Peter Vaughan, Peter Wight, Claire Skinner, Robert Pugh, Courtney Whittaker, Jordan El-Balawi, Lorraine Ashbourne, Stephen Campbell Moore, Toby Clifford, Camille Coduri, Ruby Douglas, Samantha Bond, Ben Daniels, Philip Davis, Michelle Fairley, Rosie Cavaliero, Tom Conti, Oliver Dimsdale, Paul Freeman, Hattie Morahan, Burn Gorman, Nigel Harman, Jennie Jacques, Peter-Hugo Daly, Oscar Lloyd, Harry Long, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Steed, Murray McArthur, Sheridan Smith, Andrew Westfield, Paul Ritter, Nicola Stephenson, Craig Parkinson, Julian Rivett, Danny Webb, Hugh Holman, Elliott Lancaster, Philippa Burt, Tony Leach, Mike Lease, Mike Leach, Sue Tully, Patrick Lau, Alan Grint, John Greening, Charlie Palmer, Moira Armstrong, Marc Jobst, David Tucker, Julian Holmes, Paul Marcus, Maurice Phillips, David Innes Edwards, Paul Seed, Bill Gallagher, Flora Thompson, Gaby Chiappe, Carolyn Bonnyman, Kate Gartside, Rachel Bennette, Paul Rutman
• Director: Sue Tully
• Runtime: 9:42
• Company: BBC Video
• Media Format: Series