Billy Connolly and Aly Bain: Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig
A programme celebrating the centenary of Norman MacCaig's birth. Anecdotes, tributes and readings from friends and fellow poets - including Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
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.
Friends and fellow poets - including Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney - also feature with anecdotes, tributes and readings of some of MacCaig's finest poems.
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Could Norman no like Jamaica?
Duration: 01:02
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Participant | Billy Connolly |
| Participant | Aly Bain |
| Participant | Seamus Heaney |
| Participant | Jackie Kay |
| Participant | Liz Lochhead |
| Producer | Douglas Eadie |
| Director | Mike Alexander |
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