Beautiful

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This was brilliant. I loved listening to the readers & poems & hearing stories about Norman’s character & life. Lovely idea to do a hike & fishing / camping trip in his memory, what dear friends. I felt really emotional listening to them singing & playing tunes in their tent. What a special moment, how nice for friends to do something like this together. Hope Aly didn’t sleep in his shorts, he must’ve been frozen! Thank you for uploading this wee gem. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌄🏕📚🎶🎨🎭

What time of year did they go? looks, looks far too early in the year

They should be fishing the leeward shore.

Fantastic! I absolutely love this! The poem, the video, the way it was edited, the inclusion of 3 languages, everything!

RIP your anonymous!!

Thank you, very well read!

Love it!

Takes me back to primary school🤓

A lovely reading and your poem is wonderful, I really enjoyed it

I couldnae believe seeing the hilltoon in this! Brilliant job to all involved 🥃

Aly = genius Billy = old fart, chancer and social climber

Beautiful, Thank you 🙏❤

I had never read his poems so imagine the treat i have just had.I have met and listened to Aly and Billy way back when folk clubs reigned in pubs throughout the land so i can be thankful for that. A gem of a film.

"What are we now, if we don't have these discussions?" Let me guess---complicit in 'rape culture?' Because endless discussion rescues women from the indelicacy of male contemporaries (and, presumably, overeager lesbians)? Protectionism is just Victorian paternalism retooled. Women want liberty as the equal of men. But you can't equalize what is unequal by design. You struggle and adapt, if you' have a clue. If you're a fool, you cling to the idea that the world can be transformed to gratify the wish that natural constraints don't matter. Women will always get a raw deal if they measure themselves by standards of masculine social attainment. So don't compare unless you want to be miserable. Equality that is more than political (universal suffrage) takes on a destructive vindictiveness. And then you're dealing with the slave-morality ressentiment (see: Max Scheler) brings into the world. An ugly-envious dynamic. Feminists risk poisoning themselves and the world with its soul-corroding acid of envy. That is the other, darker side of protest, which we celebrate as a form of rebellion. Eventually carping and kvetching about the shortcomings of male geniuses gets stale and repetitive. And ungenerous. Women, by virtue of the very burden nature imposes, are the more valuable because vulnerable sex. That's why they don't get sent into the meat-grinders of world conflagrations. Men are disposable. The tomb of the unknown soldier bears eloquent testimony to this fact. We are replaceable, our contribution to the propagation of the Kind easily discharged. Women have done their best to domesticate us, but there will always be those who rather associate with their brothers in freedom. Feminists have gotten into the protectionist racket and turned a movement that began as something sexy into just another form of paternalism. Only it's condoned because it's women protecting women (rescuing their dignity mostly, it seems), and not evil Patriarchs patronizing them. What is forgotten is how much benign protecting went on under the so-called patriarchy. what, after all is the function of the alpha male gorilla? To contain abuse and comfort the afflicted. Exactly what you would expect knowing that the function of society is the containment of conflict (Gabriel de Tarde).

For an encore the Sisterhood will critically appraise Ruben's painting "The Rape of the Sabine Women," with a special emphasis on what it says about rape culture in the 17th Century and its implication for our contemporary culture....

ahhhh, the highlands...Hxx polar bears and scarf theft...what a lark...Hxx

The big ming and shill.

very enjoyable. I am planning a trip to lochinver again this coming febuary, i will be visiting this loch to do some fly fishing now in the memory of this great man and all who knew him. Thank you for sharing this

I've loved. Norman's work for years..and these old and dear friends just opened a wee door to his heart ..that is very personal and I've had the joy to alaughed along with them feeling the presence of Norman through the music and the place...thank you ❤❤❤❤

This documentary "appeared" based on what we've been viewing. So good to be able to be introduced to MacCaig in this way:- seeing people: faces, hearing: beautifully played music: by recognisable ... faces. Our Grans. say Thenk Yoo to OneAndAll who uploaded this gEm. Wellwishes.

What a lovely thing

"Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the center - me." (-Norman MacCaig)

"Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the center - me." (-Norman MacCaig)

Norman MacCaig is my favourite poet. I adore his metaphors, humour and astonishing lucidity. Thanks for this programme. I also studied in Edinburgh and love the city. So this programme has an extra resonance for me.

My name is Yaron Yehuda Asher and I am from Israel. I have an affinity to Kathleen Raine, Edwin Muir W.B. Yeats and William Blake. I admit that I have some genealogical relation to Lion Feuchtwanger, through his mother Johanna Bodenheimer, whose works too have been translated from German to English by Edwin and Willa Muir. My paternal grandmother was Alice Ascher nee Bodenheimer.

1:12 hahahaha

Anyone know the fiddle tune at the beginning of this?

Here six months too late for his party, but come next 25th of January, I will be ready

.... I came here for fishing and had to listen to poetry 😅

Fabulous

wonderful.. I wish Scotland would still make such films

Wonderful tribute to a man by his friends.

I have been looking for this since I first saw it in about 2010. Thank you so much for uploading

A splendid take on a relatively unknown tale.

May thanks. I am reading this poem at a Burns dinner in Melbourne tomorrow night, and appreciate the guidance on pronunciation.

What a wonderful event!

What a wonderful documentary. Missed it the first time around . So many summers…

I saw it when it first came out ..made a strong impression..Thank you Douglas

Wonderful film. Bought the poetry book mentioned because of it.

Skelping that auld Christmas tree wae yer haun wis th’ highlight ae this video

Saw this on TV but missed the start, thanks for uploading.

"Poetry is a sword of Lightning ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it" Percy B Shelley - an apt metaphor for Scotland's Story Now. ...Scots are Scots an Scot an Scotland's Free 2023... prophetic poetry...just do it !

Thanks for the introduction.

Superb but I've said to others that they should read Andrew Greig's book first.

Thank you as the journey back in time teaches about life, laughter and beauty.

And …. what a brilliant soundtrack, eh ?

Great to be able to enjoy this film again.Cheers.