Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation | 3: Hugh Macdiarmid

Duration: 58'51''

Synopsis

Andrew Marr looks into the life of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, who reinvented Scots as a language for serious writing.

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