The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Scottish Literature: Recent Episodes
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Scottish Literature
A regular podcast presented by Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Birlinn Ltd. Travelling the highways and byways of Scottish literature.
In the second episode of a new podcast about Scottish books, Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Birlinn Ltd discuss Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain. We continue to celebrate the Cairngorms with Patrick Baker, author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History, and the marvellous Andrew Greig shares a couple of his mountain poems.
Poems by permission of Andrew Greig from Getting Higher: The Complete Mountain Poetry (Polygon); ‘The Loch of the Green Corrie’ recorded at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (2015); ‘Knoydart Revisited’ from the forthcoming CD Clean By Rain (SoundMagic Productions), lyric Andrew Greig, music Brian Michie. Out March 2017 and for sale via Andrew-greig.weebly.com or Birnam CD Online Shop.
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In the first episode of a new podcast about Scottish books, Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Birlinn Ltd discuss Robert Burns’s Kilmarnock Edition of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. Helping them celebrate the work of Burns are historian, Christopher Whatley and poet William Letford.
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