A documentary series that looks at our changing attitudes to the countryside.
With John le Carre.

A symbol of faith rising above the city of Wells, the cathedral is also a major tourist attraction.
"When I'm away and feeling sorry for myself this is the England I remember ... the quiet charity ... the slow music ... the military memory ... and the country dream, set in an English garden."
This is John le Carre talking about the cathedral city of Wells, in Somerset, in July. The author of "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" has made his home just outside Wells, and found that he has moved into a traditional world. He himself is a "modern" man, acutely sensitive to the attitudes of the twentieth century, and tonight's documentary is a reflection of the feelings of such a man looking at the past - its beauty and its social consequences.

(from the South and West)
(Colour)