Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets. He visits the pubs, farms and churches which the poet once knew and got his inspiration from. Show more

Andrew O'Hagan continues his search for the people and places which inspired Scotland's national bard, asking whether Burns's image of 'the heaven-taught ploughman' fit the truth. Show more

Burns leaves behind the Edinburgh highlife to become an exciseman in Dumfries. Illness, debt and humiliation stalk him prior to his canonisation as Scotland's national poet. Show more