Word of Mouth 2 - ACE214.2

John Hegley introduces the programme. Reads Liverpool and Glasgow. Introduces Hugh MacDiarmid. MacDiarmid in his garden. His VO on the success of his "synthetic Scots" verse. "Hugh MacDiarmid talking to Maurice Lindsay." Rod Patterson sings an arrangement of The Eemis Stane from Sangschaw. MacDiarmid talks further about his work, which he relates to Scottish literature "when it was an independent voice…" Patterson singing. Hegley gives the background to Rita Dove’s poem Parsley. Rita Dove reads Parsley. Superimposed film of sugar cane workers and of General Rafael Trujillo. Dove reading.