Published Date:
09 January 2009
SOME of Scotland's top actors will return to TV screens to celebrate the work of Robert Burns, it was announced yesterday.
Robert Carlyle and Extras star Ashley Jensen are among those appearing in a series of BBC Scotland programmes marking the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth on 25 January. The centrepiece is The Complete Burns, a three-year project to make a sound recording of every Burns poem – more than 600 in total.
Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, John Gordon Sinclair and Siobhan Redmond have all recorded poems for it.
Carlyle, Redmond and One Foot in the Grave star Richard Wilson will perform a Burns poem for a special episode of The Culture Show.
Jensen will join Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill in a comedy, No Holds Bard, which centres on a Burns recital competition.
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Last Updated:
08 January 2009 10:00 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Robert Burns
