A
Country Parish
Eight-part
series starting on BBC TWO, Tuesday 4 February, 8.00-8.30pm
Jamie
Allen is a young, dynamic curate from a working-class background
in a depressed Midlands town.
To
his own surprise, he is suddenly appointed rector of a wealthy,
old-established and very beautiful parish in the heart of rural
Wiltshire.
A
Country Parish follows Rev Jamie Allen as he bids a tearful farewell
to his congregation in the former mining community of Nuneaton to
make the journey south to an idyllic and unspoilt world he knows
little about.
At
32, Jamie Allen is not a typical country vicar.
An
open-minded, tattooed ex-DJ, he was planning to emigrate to France
and work in computers when, "just suddenly it all clicked into
place and I had this moment, when I was praying, of just being completely
aware of God's presence around me; it was astounding... it was as
if, for a moment, I was absolutely and purely known."
After
breaking the news to his wife Suzy, Jamie re-trained as a priest
and took up a post in St Mary's Abbey in Nuneaton.
Now,
together with his young family and a small menagerie of much-loved
animals, he must adjust to life in a deeply traditional parish on
the edge of Salisbury Plain.
But
some of his new ideas risk upsetting the more conservative parishioners
such as Estelle.
She's
keeping an open mind for the moment: "It depends whether change
is within tradition or whether its throwing away so much of what
England means."
A
Country Parish is a Tiger Aspect Production for BBC TWO.
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