Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation
Season 1
3 episodes · Aug 16, 2014
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S1E1James Boswell
Aug 16, 201460mAndrew has loved James Boswell ever since his mother gave him a copy of his diaries as he grew up. He attempts to follow Boswell’s journey from his privileged childhood in Ayrshire, to the streets of London and the wilderness of the Western Isles.
S1E2Walter Scott
Aug 23, 201460mAndrew examines poet and writer Sir Walter Scott, who is less well known for his time as a political fixer for Scotland then he is for his writing.
S1E3Hugh MacDiarmid
Aug 30, 201460mAndrew Marr looks at the career of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of Scotland's most bothersome poets who reinvented Scottish as a serious writing language.