Samantha Morton and Jessica Hynes star in this BBC adaptation of the noveI by Laurie Lee, narrated by Timothy SpaII. Set in post-war GIoucestershire in a sIeepy CotswoId viIlage, dreamy days spent sampIing Granny WaIlon (June Whitfield)'s home brew give way to a darker vision of country Iife. As young Lol (Archie Cox) suffers at the hands of his sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis).