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BBC Two - Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation, Hugh MacDiarmid

The life of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, who reinvented Scots as a language for serious writing.

Series exploring the lives of Scottish writers. Andrew Marr looks into the life of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, who reinvented Scots as a language for serious writing.

Andrew Marr looks into the life of Scotland's most bothersome poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. MacDiarmid reinvented Scots as a language for serious writing, at various times called for a Scottish fascism, tried to create an independent Scottish communist utopia, and was under surveillance by MI5 for many years. During his life he was involved in plots to capture Edinburgh Castle and steal the Stone of Destiny, but he also found time for a literary life in which he would write the most powerful poetry in Scots since the days of Robert Burns and to start a Scottish renaissance that goes on to this day.

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Andrew Marr explores the lives and works of the Scottish writers who defined a nation.

Andrew Marr explores the lives and works of the Scottish writers who helped define a national identity over the last three centuries

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