The speak of the Mearns
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| 15:07 UK time, Thursday, 4 February 2010
Sunday, 7th February 2010 is the 75th anniversary of the death of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Gibbon (real name James Leslie Mitchell) is one of Scottish Literature's great novelists, thanks to his trilogy A Scots Quair. Well-loved by students and avid readers alike, the opening book, Sunset Song, has firmly established its place in the Scottish literary canon (although my personal favourite is the second book, Cloud Howe.)
You may remember that last year Radio 4 broadcast a new dramatisation of Sunset Song by . It's being repeated on Sunday night on Radio Scotland. For those yet to hear it, I'd say tune in, it's a treat.
To mark the coming anniversary, Radio Scotland has produced a new range of programmes about Gibbon's life and work, as well as this evocative audio slideshow of his part of the world in the . I'm sure the programmes will be of great interest to students learning about the novels in school, but as simply a fan of Gibbon's writing I'll be tuning in to listen too.
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