Writing Scotland

"For centuries a series of distinctive voices have kept the idea of Scotland alive and given the world a literature which is the birthright of every Scot."

"In Robert Burns we have the only poet enjoying worldwide celebrity. Sir Walter Scott invented the historical and romantic novels, Conan Doyle gave us the world's most famous detective and Robert Louis Stevenson invented the psychological novel." To accompany the eight part television series Writing Scotland, produced by Hopscotch films for the BBC, Carl MacDougall takes a fresh and passionate look at Scottish literature from Burns to the present day, with comments from contemporary authors expanding on the main themes of the television series - the first ever about Scottish literature - landscape, superstition, tartan myths, religion, lost voices, travel and much more.