The World According to Robert Burns

Documentary series in which writer Andrew O'Hagan goes on a journey to find the people and places which inspired Scotland's national bard, on the 250th anniversary of his birth

The World According to Robert Burns - Episode 1

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.

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The World According to Robert Burns - Episode 2

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.

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The World According to Robert Burns - Episode 3

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.

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