Cider with Rosie [DVD] This adaptation of Laurie Lee's novel features the voice of the late author himself as narrator. In 1918 Gloucestershire, young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) grows up in the heart of the countryside, surrounded by his warm & earthy family: Uncle Sid (David Troughton), Uncle Ray (Con O' Neill) & Annie (Juliet Stevenson). The film chronicles not only Laurie's passage through adolescence & into manhood, but also the fragile evolution of rural Britain.