The Poet and the Echo

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Short story series in which writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories.

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Iain Finlay Macleod’s witty contemporary story inspired by an anonymous Gaelic poem.

Inspired by an anonymous Gaelic poem, Iain Finlay Macleod’s witty contemporary story. Read by Fiona MacNeil.

Writers choose poems as inspiration for contemporary stories.

An anonymous Gaelic poem is the inspiration for this witty contemporary story

Written by Iain Finlay Macleod.

Read by Fiona MacNeil.

Producer:  Gaynor Macfarlane.

A BBC Scotland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.

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