Character Relationship Map: Akenfield

Characters

• Blacksmith (played by Stanley Baxter) — protagonist
• The Vicar (played by Ronald Blythe) — supporting
• Mrs. Quantrill (played by Ethel Branton) — supporting
• Charlotte Rouse (played by Lyn Brooks) — supporting
• Tom Rouse (played by Garrow Shand) — supporting

  Tom is a young man living with his widowed mother in a cottage in the Suffolk village of Akenfield. During the days around his grandfather’s funeral, stories and memories of his grandfather’s hard lif...

• Dulcie Rouse (played by Peggy Cole) — supporting
• Ted (played by Ted Dedman) — supporting
• Charlie (played by Charlie Cornish) — supporting
• Mollie (played by Mollie Dedman) — supporting
• Aunt Ida (played by Ida Page) — supporting
• Jean Quantrill (played by Barbara Tilney) — supporting
• Old Tom (voiceover) (played by Peter Tuddenham) — minor
• Charlie (played by Charlie Whiting) — minor
• Robin (played by Robin Buckingham) — minor
• Young Tom Rouse (played by Alan Wright) — minor
• Young Dulcie Rouse (played by Mary Hammond) — minor
• The Minister (played by F.O. Staddon) — minor
• Farmer (played by Bob Wilson) — minor
• Policeman (played by Reg Hall) — minor

Story Analysis

A generational struggle against rural entrapment and economic hardship in 1970s Suffolk.

Plot Progression

1. Echoes of the Past
2. Whispers of Escape
3. Veil of Rural Beauty
4. Threshold of Departure