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Those Oxbridge types at the BBC keep up their perpetual sniping at their fellow nobs by portraying them as Lord Snooty and his pals whilst the noble working man is struggling to throw off his chains. Every class - war cliché is trotted out as life at the two ends of the spectrum is compared and contrasted like a first year S.P.S. undergraduate's essay. Too simplistic by far to be taken seriously with braying aristos and noble plebs abounding,"The Village" is like "Catherine Cookson presents with pretensions and overacting. In fact Miss Cookson had a far better grasp of the divisions in English society.
score 4/10
ianlouisiana 24 September 2014
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