Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation

Episode 2

Walter Scott

Andrew examines poet and writer Sir Walter Scott, who is less well known for his time as a political fixer for Scotland then he is for his writing.

Episode 3

Hugh MacDiarmid

Andrew Marr looks at the career of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of Scotland's most bothersome poets who reinvented Scottish as a serious writing language.