'The English Village is Alive and Well ...' - 1969 Part 1

BBC One London, 16 December 1969
For years now, people have been reporting the death-throes of the English village - dying crafts, shrinking population, loss of amenities. But the personalities that make the English village such a unique community are alive and well ... and living (among other places) in Peasenhall.
Peasenhall is a village of 550 people - a straggle of houses lost in the fields of East Suffolk. It's not a particularly pretty village, and the last time most people heard of it was in 1902 when a young housemaid was murdered there - still a daily topic of conversation in the village.
It sounds sleepy enough. But in fact, Peasenhall is alive with vivid personalities who talk about their involvement with the village and its changing way of life with nostalgia, humour, and occasional bitterness.
There are the miller, the blacksmith, the farming vicar, the poacher, the gamekeeper, and the undertaker.
Robert Dougall, the narrator, lives in Suffolk, only a few miles from Peasenhall.
Produced by DAVID GERRARD