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Duration: 1 hour

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.

Friends and fellow poets - including Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney - also feature with anecdotes, tributes and readings of some of MacCaig's finest poems.

Last on

Mon 22 Nov 2010 23:00 BBC Four

Credits

Participant
Billy Connolly
Participant
Aly Bain
Participant
Seamus Heaney
Participant
Jackie Kay
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Liz Lochhead
Participant
Douglas Dunn
Director
Mike Alexander
Producer
Douglas Eadie

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