Book of the Week - Hellfire and Herring - Episode 5

Hellfire and Herring Acclaimed Scottish writer Christopher Rush reads from his new memoirs – a vivid and richly poetic account of his post-war childhood in the small Fife fishing village of St Monans, where 'you could smell God on the air... as surely as you could smell the herring'. 5/5. The King My Father Christopher describes his relationship with his drunken and abusive father; and discovers the power of the written word. Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young.