Written by Joe Burroughs
Produced by R. D. Smith
The curious account of the forgery by a Ruthven schoolmaster, James Macpherson (1736-1796), of a series of poems including the epics ' Fingal ' and ' Temora ' allegedly translated from the Gaelic of the third-century bard Ossian; of their popularity and influence at home and abroad, and of their ultimate exposure and discredit after years of literary controversy with Moultrie Kelsall as James Macpherson Ralph Truman as Dr. Samuel Johnson and James McKechnie as the Narrator