A profile of Hugh MacDiarmid
"He is a minority party of one really - but what a one!"
Scotland's most famous living poet, Dr C. M. Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) celebrates his 80th birthday this week.

In this film he talks of his uncompromising life and the ideas and circumstances that have shaped its progress. Excerpts from his poetry help to trace a pattern that has taken him from the debatable lands of the Scottish Borders, through two world wars and many peacetime years of controversy and hardship, to his present home in a farm worker's cottage. In the process, he has achieved a worldwide reputation which cuts across both national and ideological frontiers.
(BBC Scotland)
(MacDiarmid at 80: Radio 3, Fri 9.55 pm; Too wild and young at 80: page 11)