' He possessed the retrospective imagination of a great writer, who stores the past, his own Or his country's, In a memory that is selective and separate from the trained memory of a scholar.'
The novelist
Rachel Trlckett , Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. reflects on the character and genius of Sir Walter Scott , ' next to ...
Shakespeare the most local yet most influential writer in the English language.' with Denis Lawson as Scott Hugh Fraser as Lockhart and Border minstrelsy sung by MARY THOMAS
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW