Sunset Song

Sunset Song

A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.

Drama

Seasons

1. The Unfurrowed Field

Air Date: 1971-03-26

'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'

2. Ploughing

Air Date: 1971-04-02

'You knew you'd never be the same again, but the world went on, and you went with it. So you folded up your dreams and laid them away with the dark quiet corpse that was your childhood.'

3. Drilling

Air Date: 1971-04-09

'But a worse thing came as slow September dragged to its end. A thing I would never tell a soul. Festering away in the closet of my mind, the memory would lie until it died.'

4. Seed Time

Air Date: 1971-04-16

'It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one. And I wasn't sure, not for days, what things we'd dreamt and what actually done.'

5. Harvest

Air Date: 1971-04-23

'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves. And seeing your Ewan grow straight and strong, with that slim body like his father's, it made a strange dizziness go singing in my heart.'

6. The Song

Air Date: 1971-04-30

'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills on that ill road that flung its evil white ribbon down into the dusk.'

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Rating

9.0/10

Release Date

1971-03-26

Episodes

6 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Vivien Heilbron

Vivien Heilbron

Chris Guthrie

Victor Carin

Victor Carin

Chae Strachan

Derek Anders

Derek Anders

Long Rob Duncan

Anne Kristen

Anne Kristen

Kirsty Strachan

John Grieve

John Grieve

Munro of Cuddiestoun

Mary Riggans

Mary Riggans

Mrs. Munro

Alex McAvoy

Alex McAvoy

Alec Mutch

Jean Fitzpatrick

Jean Fitzpatrick

Mrs. Mutch

Production Companies

BBC

BBC