Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation
Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation
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Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation

2014
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

Andrew Marr explores the lives and works of the Scottish writers who helped define a national identity over the last three centuries.

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Cast

Seasons

  • James Boswell

    1.James Boswell

    16-08-201460m

    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...

  • Walter Scott

    2.Walter Scott

    23-08-201460m

    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.

  • Hugh MacDiarmid

    3.Hugh MacDiarmid

    30-08-201460m

    Andrew Marr looks at the career of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of Scotland's most bothersome poets who reinvented Scottish as a serious writing language.

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