Robert Burns: The People's Poet
BBC Documentary Film
★★★★★
English / 89 MIN. / 2009
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The Synopsis
Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets, as Scotland celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons. He travels through the landscape of modern Scotland in a poetic journey to the places that inspired Burns and to discover the story of his wild and dramatic life.