Broadcast: Feb. 4-March 4, 1979. Based on the short stories of two masters of the genre, A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates, 'Country Matters' depicts life in rural England during that period between the two World Wars when countrymen and women were untroubled by the noises of the twentieth century. The short stories televised are: 'Crippled Bloom' (Coppard), 'Breeze Anstey', 'The Simple Life', 'An Aspidistra in Babylon' (all Bates), and 'The Sullens Sisters' (Coppard).
