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Edwin Morgan - Love and a Life

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A portrait of Edwin Morgan, Scotland's first Makar or national poet, who died last month at the age of 90. In this film, first shown in 2003, Morgan reflects on his life and work and talks candidly about the difficulties of being gay in Glasgow in the 1950s and of later coping with cancer. Contributors include Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray and Jackie Kay.