Synopsis
The second part of the programme presents Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Edith Bowman explains the plot, themes and characters in the story of young Chris Guthrie's life on a Scottish farm in the years leading up to the First World War.
Further Information
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A trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon set in a Scottish east coast farming community in the interwar years. Dramatised for television by Bill Craig.
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