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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The 7th February 2025 marks 90 years since the death of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song. In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite novel. In this archive programme, Mark Stephen explores the area it was set in, the Mearns.
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0:53.3 | We're marking 90 years since the death of Lewis |
0:56.8 | Grassett Gibbon by sharing a programme we made 15 years ago. Myself Mark Stephen and Ewan McElwraith |
1:03.4 | were exploring both the setting and some of the themes contained in the book with a bit of a foray |
1:08.9 | around the Merns, which lies south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire |
1:13.0 | and goes down to Angus. Here's Mark to explain more. In Graswick Gibbons, sunset song, |
1:19.4 | The Land, as we've said, really plays a huge role, not only because it's being worked on, |
1:24.3 | but the particular features around the Mearns, the Red Clay soil, the Grampian Mountains, |
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