"Walter Scott" (14 results)

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott and the Scottish language

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott and the Scottish language

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 4'26''

Scott championed the use of Scottish language in his dialogue, but often the narrative was in English which d...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott, politics and royalty

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott, politics and royalty

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'06''

Walter Scott's conservative views were different to what it would mean in modern terms. Nevertheless he attracted...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s journal, death and legacy

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s journal, death and legacy

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'53''

Scott brought Scottish fiction out of descriptions of poverty and reignited its romantic flame, highl...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Historical fiction and Scott

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Historical fiction and Scott

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'36''

Scott was a pioneer of historical fiction and as such a yearly prize is awarded in his name. Kirsty Walk discuss...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s study

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s study

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'22''

When building Abbotsford, it was essential that Scott had an extensive writing room that would be any novelists dream. He...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | How Scott wrote

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | How Scott wrote

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'55''

Being an aristocrat, it was frowned upon to be writing novels, so Scott would often work anonymously and even review his own ...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s influence on music

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott’s influence on music

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 4'46''

Scott's work inspired many things including operas and classical music, some of which are still famous today...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott and the kilt

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Scott and the kilt

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'00''

After the English government punished the Scots by taking away their cultural symbol, it was Scott who influenced the retu...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Origins

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Origins

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 3'40''

After contracting polio, Scott was sent away to the Borders where he was subject to the song and folklore which would later be his in...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Ballad collecting

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Ballad collecting

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 1'40''

Scott's first literary success was a collection of ballads he had archived from his upbringing and which now has become an ...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | ‘The Lady of the Lake” and tourism

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | ‘The Lady of the Lake” and tourism

The Lady of the Lake | BBC Scotland | 2022 | 3'21''

Scott's ''The Lady of the Lake'' was very popular for its quality of nature writing and sparke...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Building Abbotsford

In Search of Sir Walter Scott | Building Abbotsford

BBC Scotland | 2022 | 2'56''

With his fame and riches, Scott built a mansion from scratch which is unheard of for a writer of that era.

In Search of Sir Walter Scott

In Search of Sir Walter Scott

BBC Scotland | 2021 | 57'59''

To mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth, author Damian Barr goes in search of the legacy of one of Scotland's great historica...

Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation | 2: Walter Scott

Andrew Marr’s Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation | 2: Walter Scott

BBC Two | 2014 | 58'37''

Andrew Marr looks at Walter Scott, a prolific novelist, poet and political fixer.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Request a clip