Fishing for Poetry - A Celebration of Norman MacCaig

11/08/2010

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1hr 0min

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Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Billy Connolly
  • Aly Bain
  • Andrew Greig
  • Jackie Kay
  • Liz Lochhead

    Director

  • Mike Alexander

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC
  • BBC Scotland
  • Pelicula Films

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

  • English