Bill Craig
Director
Sunset Song (1972)
Season 1
Chris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes the managing of the farm with her father and her older brother, but the men fall out, leaving Chris and her father to manage it alone. When her father dies, she considers abandoning the farm, but decides to carry on alone. She marries a young farmer, Ewan Tavendale. They have a baby and are happy for the first time, then the First World War breaks out, Ewan enlists and dies in France, and Chris is left once again to carry on with the farm.
Released March 24, 1972
Episode 258 min
None+
Genres: Drama
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Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Unfurrowed Field
'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'
March 26, 1971, midnight
S1E2 - Ploughing
'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.'
April 2, 1971, midnight
S1E3 - Drilling
'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.'
April 9, 1971, midnight
S1E4 - Seed Time
'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.'
April 16, 1971, midnight
S1E5 - Harvest
'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.'
April 23, 1971, midnight
S1E6 - The Song
'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.'
April 30, 1971, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 258 min.
Season Runtime: 42 min.
Released: March 24, 1972
Last Air Date: April 30, 1971, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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