TY - ADVS AU - Dudley,Phillip AU - Havers,Nigel AU - Houston,Glyn AU - Delderfield,R.F. TI - A horseman riding by PY - 2015///] CY - [Pyrmont, New South Wales] PB - Roadshow Entertainment [distributor] KW - Country life KW - England KW - Drama KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Devon (England) KW - History KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Television mini-series KW - lcgft KW - Television adaptations N1 - Title from disc label; "R-B02778-9."; Originally screened as a 13-part BBC drama series in 1978; Based on the novels by R.F. Delderfield; Special features: R F Delderfield biography and bibliography; Filmographies and photo gallery; Disc 1: Valley for sale ; The party -- An outbreak of romance -- Disc 2 : A birth and a death ; The storm -- Disc 3 : The hollow victory ; The lasy hot summer -- Disc 4 : Call to arms ; Death of a hero -- Disc 5 : The profiteers ; The bad season -- Disc 6 : The service ; The old and the new; Directed by Phillip Dudley, Alan Grintand, Paul Ciappessoni; Nigel Havers, Glyn Houston, Prunella Ransome; Rated: M N2 - Nigel Havers (Chariots of Fire, Dangerfield) stars as Paul Craddock in this evocative adaptation of R.F. Delderfield's bestselling novel, a magnificent saga of rural Edwardian England from 1900 to the end of the Great War. Paul Craddock, invalided out of the army during the Boer War, becomes Squire of the long neglected Devonshire Estate of Shallowford House. The 13-part series charts Craddock's new life in the Valley, his relationships with his tenants, his popularity with the local women and subsequent marriage to a woman who longs for a life in the city and of course, its bitter and inevitable end. Life in Sorrel Valley is challenging for Paul because of the Valley's inhabitants and the harsh consequences of war; however all is not lost, when the woman he truly loves is once again by his side ER -