Traditionally each New Year's Eve people the world over link hands and sing ' Auld lang syne,' perhaps the best known of all the songs of Robert Burns.
This programme tells the story of how Burns came to write it - rejecting first one version, then another; and in fact finding a tune for it very different from the one we know today. Written by DAVID DAICHES Narrated by BRIAN HAINES with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR and HENRY STAMPER as Robert Burns
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK