Moira Armstrong suggests in her letter about Sunset Song (2 December) that publicity for the film has implied that there had been no earlier attempt to dramatise my grandfather’s novel, citing the BBC’s wonderful 1970 TV version. She should rest assured that the director Terence Davies has consistently and generously credited Vivien Heilbron’s portrayal of Chris Guthrie as his inspiration for his 15-year labour of love. She and James Naughtie (Loons and queans and orramen, G2, 25 November) were concerned about Terence’s capturing of the landscape and language. But the film’s potentially toughest critics, the current residents of “Kinraddie”, the fictional setting of the novel, gave it a resounding Doric cheer when it was shown in Arbuthnott village hall, two miles from where Lewis Grassic Gibbon was brought up, on St Andrew’s Day.
Alister Martin
Welwyn Garden City
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Welwyn Garden City
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- 12/2/2015
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Thank you for the excellent article by James Naughtie on Sunset Song (Loons and queans and orramen, G2, 25 November). He is right to be apprehensive as to whether the film about to be released can capture, as he says, “a love song for a landscape and language”. However, the publicity for the film and the article imply that there have never been any attempts to dramatise the novel – not true. So successful was the six-part television serial made by BBC Scotland in 1970 that it became a set text in Scottish schools, was shown on Masterpiece Theatre in America, and was repeated 10 years later as one of the most popular dramas to be transmitted. So, “the speak of the Mearns” was appreciated even in America.
Moira Armstrong
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- 12/1/2015
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