Country Matters

Watch Country Matters: This Granada TV series of 1972 made an enormous impact at the time with the more discerning viewers in Britain. I remember how many of our friends stayed in on the relevant evening for weeks because they didn't want to miss it. Those people unfamiliar with country life were in a state of severe shock, as this was a series which showed with a high degree of disturbing realism (as with the shocking film THE MILL) just how basic, gruelling, and relentless country life really was early in the 20th century, long before anything remotely resembling modern society existed. It is astonishing to me that so utterly British a series as this should be available on DVD only in America, and that it has...