Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

Overview

One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher. His favourite loch, the Loch of the Green Corrie, lies high up in the mountains of Assynt in the far north-west of Scotland. Fiddle maestro Aly Bain, Billy Connolly and award-winning poet and novelist Andrew Greig celebrate MacCaig in the centenary year of his birth with a journey from Edinburgh to Assynt and then the long climb to the Loch of the Green Corrie with its elusive trout.

Directed by Mike Alexander

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Billy Connolly

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Aly Bain

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Andrew Greig

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Jackie Kay

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Liz Lochhead

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Douglas Dunn

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Seamus Heaney

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