The World According to Robert Burns

    Season 1 2011

    • 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z on BBC Two
    • 30m
    • 1h 30m (3 episodes)
    • United Kingdom
    • Documentary
    Documentary series in which writer Andrew O'Hagan goes on a journey to find the people and places which inspired Scotland's national bard, on the 250th anniversary of his birth.
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    3 episodes

    Series Premiere

    2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

    1x01 Episode 1

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    Series Premiere

    1x01 Episode 1

    • 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z — 30m

    Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets.

    2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

    1x02 Episode 2

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    1x02 Episode 2

    • 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z — 30m

    Andrew O'Hagan asks whether Burns's image of 'the heaven-taught ploughman' fit the truth.

    2011-02-08T00:00:00Z

    1x03 Episode 3

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    1x03 Episode 3

    • 2011-02-08T00:00:00Z — 30m

    Burns leaves behind the Edinburgh highlife to become an exciseman in Dumfries.

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