All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 Episode 1

  • January 25, 2011
  • BBC Two

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

• S01E02 Episode 2

  • February 1, 2011
  • BBC Two

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

• S01E03 Episode 3

  • February 8, 2011
  • BBC Two

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