It was originally billed as " an everyday story of country folk ", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as " contemporary drama in a rural setting ".

The Learning Tree is a 1969 drama film which tells the story of a young African American growing up in rural Kansas during the late 1920s and early 1930s, when racial discrimination was a social norm and legally sanctioned in parts of the United States.

Programs known to have been lost include most studio segments from the 1960s current affairs shows This Day Tonight and Monday Conference, hundreds of episodes of the long-running rural serial Bellbird, all but a handful of episodes of the early-1970s drama series Certain Women, an early-1970s miniseries of dramatizations based on Norman Lindsay's novels, and nearly all of the first 18 months of the weekly pop-music show Countdown.

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role.

Originally from rural Indiana, they moved to New Rochelle, New York, where, after performing in high school productions, Booth went on to study drama in New York City, where she worked as a waitress.

Farrell attended the Gaiety School of Acting and dropped out when he was cast in the part of Danny Byrne on Ballykissangel, a BBC television drama that centers around a young English priest who becomes a part of a rural community in Ireland.

Among the first of these shows, which were aimed at giving advertisers access to ' stay at home mums ' and housewives in general, were the long-running rural soap Emmerdale Farm ( YTV ) and the twice-weekly medical drama General Hospital.

It can apply to NZ On Air ( funded directly from the government since 2000 ) for support in local content initiatives, such as drama and comedy, and funding of programming for minority groups such as gay, Christian and rural New Zealanders.

Mr. Ogata died on October 5, 2008, just days after finishing his role in the production of the Fuji TV drama " Kaze no Garden " ( Garden of the Winds ), filmed in the rural Furano area of northern Japan.

; L ' Oiseau bleu / Aoi Tori: Japanese TV drama from 1997 telling a " tale of tragic love between Yoshimori, a station employee at a quiet, rural station, and Kahori, the wife of the heir to a family fortune.

His work in the 1990s included The Comfort of Strangers ( 1990 ), adapted by Harold Pinter from the Ian McEwan novel, Light Sleeper ( 1992 ), a sympathetic study of a drug dealer vying for a normal life, which he called his " most personal " film, Touch ( 1997 ), from an Elmore Leonard novel, and the rural drama Affliction ( 1997 ), from the Russell Banks novel, which gained wide critical acclaim.

On March 27, 2008 at 12: 01 a. m. EST, CBC Country Canada was rebranded as bold to better reflect the programming direction CBC Country Canada was moving in, and to focus its programming on drama, comedy, the arts, and sports rather than an informational and lifestyle service for rural Canadians.

Tikhonov became better known with the release of " the rural family drama Delo bylo v Penkove ( It Happened in Penkovo, 1958 ), was followed by several wartime dramas: Maiskie Zvyozdy ( May Stars, 1959 ), set in Prague, and Na Semi Vetrakh ( On the Seven Winds, 1962 ), on the Western front.

Crawford Productions ' Melbourne-based police drama Homicide premiered on 20 October 1964 on HSV-7, soon followed on 11 November by the ATN-7 satirical sketch comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show ( which at its peak drew an unprecedented 59 % of the audience ), the rural soap opera Bellbird on the ABC ( 1967 ), and for interstate viewers Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight or the Graham Kennedy Channel Nine Show.

There is a drama club, ' Wickham Bishops Drama Club ', located centrally between Witham, Maldon and Tiptree in rural Essex.

* February 11-The television drama series Ballykissangel, made by BBC Northern Ireland and set in a rural Irish community, first airs.

Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family.

A half hour family drama, the show starred Lois Maxwell ( of James Bond fame ) as Nancy Williams, a widow raising her children Billy ( Stephen Cottier ) and Hannah ( Susan Conway ) in rural Northern Ontario.

Usually categorized as rural drama, the film narrates the lives of two Basque families covering the years 1875-1936, which historically were the unstable and bloody years from the Third Carlist War to the Spanish Civil War.

His stories are often about simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight.

Shows presented that season included James Harkness ' rural drama Homage and Stem ( created by Greg MacArthur, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Erika Hennebury, Clinton Walker ), both developed through Buddies ' developmental programmes.

This is a falsely naturalistic drama ( the title refers to " an impossible ceremony ") set in contemporary Essex which shows, through a set of tragic circumstances, the death of rural society brought about by modern post-war urban living standards.

However, rural drama remains as strong source of material as seen in On Home Ground ( 2001 – 2002 ), Pure Mule ( 2005 – 2009 ) and the popular detective series Single-Handed ( 2007-Date ).

It is probably best remembered as the production company of CBS ’ “ rural comedies ” of the 1960s, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, as well as the comedy-drama The Trials of O ' Brien, the western Dundee and the Culhane, the adventure show Bearcats !, the police drama Cagney & Lacey, and the sitcoms Mr. Ed and The Addams Family.

In Central Italy, many small rural communes still cluster at the base of a fortified habitation known as La Rocca of the commune.

The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas.

Although Roman designs were most popular, rural craftsmen still produced items derived from the Iron Age La Tène artistic traditions.

In 1964, the FARC – EP were established as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC ), after the Colombian military attacked rural Communist enclaves in the aftermath of The Violence ( La Violencia, ca.

In Colombian history and culture, the killings are known as La Violencia ( The Violence, 1948 – 58 ); most of the people killed were peasants and laborers in rural Colombia.

In rural areas, especially on La Digue, a popular way of public transport are ox-carts.

Only in his picture of rural working-class life in La Terre and in the corresponding picture of industrial working-class life in Germinal, does Zola convincingly escape from Paris into the provinces.

In 1890, Coubertin wrote an article in La Revue Athletique, which espoused the importance of Much Wenlock — a rural market town in the English county of Shropshire.

A rural château in La Roque-Gageac, Dordogne.

The novel La Place by Annie Ernaux largely takes place in Seine-Maritime and describes events and changes that take place in relation to French society in the 20th century especially in relation to the rural population.

Roman Catholic Bishop Frederick William Freking of the Diocese of La Crosse was born in rural Heron Lake.

In 2012 La Russell is a small rural & predominantly agricultural and livestock raising community.

La Vernia is a thriving rural community located on State Highway 87, 25 miles east of San Antonio, Texas.

WIS 35 runs south along the Mississippi River through rural areas all the way to La Crosse, although the highway provides easy access to Red Wing, Minnesota via US 63.

Important rural communities include Emiliano Zapata ( Agua Fría ), La Libertad, Tierra Colorada, Lacandón, San Juan and San Vicente El Alto.

While the Mexican Mafia had initially been created to protect Mexicans in prison, there was a perceived level of abuse by members of La Eme towards the imprisoned Latinos from rural farming areas of Northern California.

René Clément was first approached to direct L ' École des facteurs, but as he was preoccupied directing La Bataille du rail, directing duties fell to Tati, who would also star in this short comedy of rural life.

La la was primarily rural, played at house dances also known as la las, and found in towns in the prairie regions like Mamou, Eunice and Opelousas.

La Follette grew up in rural Dane County, Wisconsin.

There are seven different categories of protection: six nature reserves: El Brezal, Azuaje, Los Tilos de Moya, Los Marteles, Las Dunas de Maspalomas and Güigüi ( total 7, 153. 1 ha ); two integral nature reserves: Inagua and Barranco Oscuro ( total 3, 955, 5 ha ); two natural parks: Tamadaba and Pilancones ( total 13, 333 ha ), two rural parks: Nublo and Doramas ( total 29, 893. 4 ha ), ten natural monuments: Amagro, Bandama, Montañón Negro, Roque de Aguayro, Tauro, Arinaga, Barranco de Guayadeque, Riscos de Tirajana, Roque Nublo and Barranco del Draguillo ( total 5, 264. 9 ha ), seven protected landscapes: La Isleta ( in the capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ), Pino Santo, Tafira, Las Cumbres, Lomo Magullo, Fataga and Montaña de Agüimes ( total 12, 680. 9 ha ); four sites of scientific interest: Jinámar, Tufia, Roque de Gando and Juncalillo del Sur ( total 276. 2 ha ).

The first volume was expanded into three volumes, La Gaule romaine ( 1891 ), L ' Invasion germanique et la fin de l ' empire ( 1891 ) and La Monarchie franque ( 1888 ), followed by three other volumes, L ' Alleu et le domaine rural pendant l ' époque mérovingienne ( 1889 ), Les Origines du système féodal: le bénéfice et le patronat ... ( 1890 ) and Les Transformations de la royauté pendant l ' époque carolingienne ( 1892 ).

Angeline ( my driver ) with that floppy mane of hair and sarcastic attitude that can only come from an upbringing in rural Wales, Sophie ( chef ) and her Sonoma foie-gras compote topped Roti A La Broche and constant humming out-of-tune, Vanity ( really her name, types up my dictation when Delissa is at lunch ) plucking her brows.

Volume 14 of Caribbean studies His novel La Llamarada offers a compressive view of rural Puerto Rico during the Great Depression.

Quebec remake La Vie Rurale ( The rural life ) promo shot, with Jacynthe Millette-Bilodeau ( left ) and Anne-Marie Losique ( right )