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Four 13-14 minute readings from J.L. Carr's novel "
A Month in the Country".
Narration by Samuel West.
A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War.
A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War