The Village

Billed as “an epic drama series for BBC One …, charting the life and turbulent times of one English village across the whole of the 20th century”, the first of six episodes of ‘The Village’ were screened last night, marking the beginning of what will be one of the state broadcaster’s major propaganda exercises for 2013. Furthermore, on the Daily Mail website yesterday was a promotional pre-publicity article announcing ‘The Village’ and informing us that the…