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"Robert Burns" (8 results)
The fourth documentary in a series on Robert Burns, narrated by David Daiches.
Burns considered going to work in the slave trade, which was at odds with his later documented abolitioni...
Writer Alan Bissett explores the complex brain of Robert Burns - a poetic genius with contradictory attitudes to women, politics and slavery.
A performance of "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns, followed by an analysis by Professor Gerad Carruthers.
The popular poem "Ae Fond Kiss" was born from an affair conducted over letter where Burns and Agnes s...
The team celebrate Rabbie Burns in true Scottish style, complete with bag-piping like you will have never seen before, and a 'disgusting' taste test.
Scots Makar Jackie Kay looks at the lives of some of the extraordinary, and often overlooked, poets that Scotland has produced and how they have told, and conti...
Simon Schama explores how the romantics created the secular cult of national belonging in their poetry, music and art, with e...
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