Five Generations | The Changing Environment

The first of two programmes in which Jeremy Seabrook in Northamptonshire examines the effect of moving from a rural to urban environment on the way people talk and think. Through interviews with elderly residents of the area, we hear about people's childhood in the 19th century and first hand accounts of World War One.

Northamptonshire has 2,000 miles of footpaths and is famous for its picture postcard villages. One of these, Aynho, the 'apricot village', is so known because at one time the squires here would accept apricots in payment for rent.