Sunset Song

Miniseries

1971 · 6 episodes · 4h 18m in all

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.

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Unfurrowed Field

   26 Mar 1971 · 44 min

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

2. 2

   2. Ploughing

   2 Apr 1971 · 41 min

   '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. 3

   3. Drilling

   9 Apr 1971 · 44 min

   '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. 4

   4. Seed Time

   16 Apr 1971 · 43 min

   '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. 5

   5. Harvest

   23 Apr 1971 · 42 min

   '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. 6

   6. The Song

   30 Apr 1971 · 44 min

   '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.'