Times have changed in Myddle village, which is no longer the hotbed of murder, bigamy, polygamy and drunkenness that it once was.

Richard Gough wrote a book detailing the real lives and scandals of the villagers of Myddle in Shropshire in 1700. He based it on the pews in the village church and used their positions to trace the inter-relations of all the local families. Peter Green visits the village to recount some of the more bawdy of these tales. The pace of life seems much more sedate in 1981, unless he's talking to the wrong people of course.

Richard Gough wrote a book detailing the real lives and scandals of the villagers of Myddle in Shropshire in 1700. He based it on the pews in the village church and used their positions to trace the inter-relations of all the local families. Peter Green visits the village to recount some of the more bawdy of these tales. The pace of life seems much more sedate in 1981, unless he's talking to the wrong people of course.