Period Drama

Sunset Song

The first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy about a young girl's intellectual and sexual development within a repressive peasant community in Scotland just before the First World War.

Series 1: 1. The Unfurrowed Field (44 mins)

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  • 1. The Unfurrowed Field
    'Two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'
    44 mins
  • 2. Ploughing
    'You knew you'd never be the same again, but the world went on, and you went with it.'
    42 mins
  • 3. Drilling
    'But a worse thing came as slow September dragged to its end.'
    45 mins
  • 4. Seed Time
    'It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one.'
    44 mins
  • 5. Harvest
    'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves.'
    42 mins
  • 6. The Song
    'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills.'
    44 mins
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