Sunset Song
Sunset Song is a TV show on BBC4. 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. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2025.
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Sunset Song
'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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'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.'
From 1971, a BBC dramatisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel. 'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.'