Sunset Song

TV Mini Series
1971

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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.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.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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Vivien Heilbron

Chris

• 1971

Victor Carin

Chae Strachan

• 1971

Derek Anders

Long Rob Duncan

• 1971

Anne Kristen

Kirsty Strachan

• 1971

John Grieve

Munro of Cuddiestoun

• 1971

Mary Riggans

Mrs. Munro

• 1971

Alex McAvoy

Alec Mutch

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Joan Fitzpatrick

Mrs. Mutch

• 1971

James Grant

Ewan

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Charles Kearney

Rev. Gibbon

• 1971

Paul Young

Will Guthrie

• 1971

Andrew Keir

John Guthrie

• 1971

Roddy McMillan

Uncle Tam

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Jean Faulds

Aunt Janet

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Bill Gavin

Gordon of Upperhill

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Paul Kermack

Dr. Meldrum

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David Mowat

John Brigson

• 1971

Marjorie Dalziel

Mrs. Gordon

• 1971

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Classic serial

I can't believe I am the first person to review this brilliant TV series. I would have been too young to watch it in 1971, but the BBC have recently been showing old classic TV series on BBC4. I have rewatched Our friends in the north, How green was my valley, The singing detective and The roads to freedom. Sunset Song is just as good.

It tells the story of Chris Guthrie, her family and the local farming community in NE Scotland. I had to watch with subtitles as the Scottish dialect is difficult to follow, but it does make the drama more real. Vivien Heilbron is perfect as Chris as is Andrew Keir as her difficult father, but all the acting was first class as was the direction and pacing.

It will be available on BBC iplayer for several months.

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Vivien Heilbron insisted they write in the controversial and groundbreaking scene where she takes off all of her clothes and admires herself in the mirror. She said in a 2023 documentary about key women who had a role in shaping Scotland over the last 50 years that she had read the book, but when she read the script she realized if wasn't in it. She asked screenwriter Bill Craig why and he said he didn't think she would want to perform naked in front of a set full of men and the thousands of viewers. Heilbron admitted she didn't but felt the scene was too important a moment in her character's life not to do it. Director Moira Armstrong agreed when they told her. So they filmed it and it became the first nude scene broadcast on BBC Scotland.