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Sunset Song

1971 - 1971

The Unfurrowed Field

26th March 1971
Episode 1
'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'

Ploughing

2nd April 1971
Episode 2
'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.'

Drilling

9th April 1971
Episode 3
'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.'

Seed Time

16th April 1971
Episode 4
'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.'

Harvest

23rd April 1971
Episode 5
'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.'

The Song

30th April 1971
Episode 6
'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.'
Top Cast
Director
Moira Armstrong
Writer
Bill Craig
Drama

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.

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