Name: Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages
Released: 2014-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Penelope Keith

TV Show · Documentary · Travel

Having lived in the rural village of Milford in Surrey for nearly 40 years, award-winning actress Penelope Keith has a keen sense of what makes villages special. Penelope journeys from one bucolic village to the next as she asks why do we love Britain's villages so much?

2014 · 47m

Starring Penelope Keith

EPISODE 1

East Anglia

Penelope attends a traditional village regatta on the Norfolk Broads, takes to the air over the village of Little Snoring, and witnesses the formation wheelbarrow display by the Red Sparrows!

46m
EPISODE 2

North-west England & North Wales

Penelope explores the rugged hills and valleys of North Wales, goes to her first music festival, meets the Cheshire set and attends an ancient fertility festival in Staffordshire.

46m
EPISODE 3

South-west England

Penelope follows her guidebook through Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, including a visit to Castle Combe, voted Britain's prettiest village.

46m
EPISODE 1

Devon and Cornwall

Penelope is in the land of rugged coastal communities and cliff-edge fishing villages, but also of huge numbers of holiday makers. She visits the most exposed theatre in the country and Fowey Harbour.

46m
EPISODE 2

Cumbria and the Lake District

Penelope is in the far north-west of England, learning about life amidst the renowned landscape of Cumbria and discovers there is much more to life in a Cumbrian village than tourists and tea shops.

47m
EPISODE 3

Royal Deeside

Penelope travels through Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, exploring its considerable links to the royal family. She also goes gamekeeping and takes to the skies in a glider.

47m