Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation – Season 1
2014
3 Episodes
Episodes
S01E01
James Boswell
Andrew 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.
16 Aug 201460m
S01E02
Walter Scott
Andrew 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.
23 Aug 201460m
S01E03
Hugh MacDiarmid
Andrew Marr looks at the career of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of Scotland's most bothersome poets who reinvented Scottish as a serious writing language.
30 Aug 201460m