Chris Guthrie inherits the farm in its entirety from her father. She meets and falls for Ewan Tavendale. Show more

Chris eagerly awaits Ewan's return from army training but finds him shockingly changed by his experiences. Show more

Chris receives devastating news from Chae, a neighbour home on leave from the front, who had spoken to her husband Ewan just before his death. Show more

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.' Show more

'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.'

'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.'

'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 had dreamt and what we had actually done.'

'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves. And seeing your Ewan grow straight and strong, it made a strange dizziness go singing in my heart.' Show more

'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.'

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's powerful sequel to Sunset Song, set in a small Aberdeenshire town. Dramatised by Donna Franceschild. Show more

Tensions within the town grow as Chris and Robert help the spinners prepare for strike action. But nothing can prepare the family for the tragic events that are about to unfold. Show more

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.