Samantha Morton and Jessica Hynes star in this BBC adaptation of the novel by Laurie Lee, narrated by Timothy SpalI. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy CotswoId village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny WalIon (June WhitfieId)'s home brew give way to a darker vision of country life. As young LoI (Archie Cox) suffers at the hands of his sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he experiences his first Iove with the precocious Rosie (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis).