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Sunset Song

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.

Mar 26, 19711 seasons6 episodesEndedEN

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Vivien Heilbron

Chris Guthrie

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Victor Carin

Chae Strachan

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Mary Riggans

Mrs. Munro

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Alex McAvoy

Alec Mutch

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Seasons

Miniseries

6 episodes

Premiered Mar 26, 1971

Episodes

1–6 of 6

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Ep 1

The Unfurrowed Field

Mar 26, 1971

44m

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

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Ep 2

Ploughing

Apr 2, 1971

41m

'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.'

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Ep 3

Drilling

Apr 9, 1971

44m

'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.'

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Ep 4

Seed Time

Apr 16, 1971

43m

'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.'

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Ep 5

Harvest

Apr 23, 1971

42m

'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.'

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Ep 6

The Song

Apr 30, 1971

44m

'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.'