by Joy Hendry.
William Soutar died 50 years ago this month.
Despite illness he had been writing for most of his life.
He was a prolific diarist and prose writer as well as a poet of stature. By 1943 he had been bed-ridden for 13 years. In July he was told by his doctor that he had not long to live. His last diary, The Diary of a Dying Man, was started on the morning of that visit....
Music David Dorward
Director Hamish Wilson