Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry
Season 2010Episode 146Season 2010Episode 148

E147 Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry

BBC Documentaries / Season 2010 / Episode 147

08 Nov, 2010 · 1h

 
Season 2010Episode 146Season 2010Episode 148

E147 Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry

BBC Documentaries / Season 2010 / Episode 147

08 Nov, 2010 · 1h

 

One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher. His favourite loch, the Loch of the Green Corrie, lies high up in the mountains of Assynt in the far north-west of Scotland. Fiddle maestro Aly Bain, Billy Connolly and award-winning poet and novelist Andrew Greig celebrate MacCaig in the centenary year of his birth with a journey from Edinburgh to Assynt and then... see more

One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher. His favourite loch, the Loch of the Green Corrie, lies high up in the mountains of Assynt in the far north-west of Scotland. Fiddle maestro Aly Bain, Billy Connolly and award-winning poet and novelist Andrew Greig celebrate MacCaig in the centenary year of his birth with a journey from Edinburgh to Assynt and then... see more
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