Robert Burns The Peoples Poet BBC Documentary 

If you are scottish, share this with your children. It's your duty to keep the flame burning forever. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Under 500 views is ridiculous. Robert Burns can truly and without overstating, be considered as a genius. Way ahead of progression and enlightenment. Absolutely, poetic.

Excellent documentary. I especially liked the fact that the presenter was himself a Scottish writer. He chose to hone in on the many artistc compromises and contadictions Burns made either voluntarily or otherwise. Thankfully they didn't stifle his genius. Very enjoyable programme.

I watch this video just about every year in Jan. The does justice to this passionate man in the time that is alloted. I only wish it longer, a great piece of art, thank you.

❤ Such a good documentary. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

Great documentary… thank you for sharing.

excellent documentary

I know nobody’s gonna believe me but I’m Robert Burns 50 times granddaughter I’m not joking I am

Delighted to have found this! Happy New Year!

Such a well done, nuanced presentation. As someone who has made a subsistence living as an artist in my youth, I wonder if Burns could have avoided the hypocrisy label noted at the end, had he been compensated abundantly for his genius and contribution to the literary reputation of Scotland.

I just brain blazed too hard & danny brought me here.. fascinating to find out about robert burns's life

Maun delicht tae read Rabbie Burns noo a'm aulder bit it wis tortur as ae wean. (Such delight to read Robert Burns now I am older but it was torture as a child).

God bless the people's poet

So what happened to his poor wife and childern? It distresses me greatly to think of Jean giving posthumous birth and no income to keep it and her other children from starving in a workhouse. His literary legacy lived on, but we need to know about his mortal legacy as well.

Fantastic!

Best documentry ever on the Heaven Taught Plooman.

My ancestor! It makes me proud to be of his bloodline!

The poet he was, to the Scottish , some we know and some we don't is fame to all who knew him best, so read and site his words when his birthday is here we never will forget, Rabbie ever more always to your words be known to all whom knows them best.

Cheers this helped with my Rabbie Burns homework

Intriguing.

He kept our Scottish identity alive, when it was just the candles flame after Culloden. He fought not with swords but with the pen and the mither tongue.

Love the weedgie "to a mouse"!!

I am breaking out my kilt for a burns supper tomorrow

Id like to know more about the family tree of robbie burns leading to current family, I was told by my late grandfather that we were direct descendants. I would love to know more.

oh once I loved a bonnie lass, Aye, and I love her still And whilst that virtue warms my breast I love my handsome Nell As Bonnie lassies I hae seen, An mauny full as braw But for a modest, gracefu' mein The like I never saw.. A bonie lass, I will confess Is pleasant to the e'e (eye) But without some better qualities She's no the lass for me But Nelly's looks are Blyth and sweet And what is best of aw' (all) Her reputation is complete And fair without a flaw... She dresses aye sae clean an' neat Both decent an' gente'el And then theirs somethin' in her gait Gars ony dress look we'el A gawdy dress and gentle air may slightly touch the heart but it's innocence and modesty that polishes the dart Tis this in Nelly pleases me tis this enchants my soul for absolutely, in my breast She reigns without control. beautiful ❤❤❤

Can you do the jolly beggars right?

He is my ancestor and I'm not joking

Did you know, Robert Burns’ daughter (Elizabeth) was burried in whitburn?

aye the deils awa,

Edinboro?

Aberdeen 🇬🇧

59:13 to 59:15 is pretty much modern Scotland tho !

EDINBURGH....edin-burra.

@terry#66 he don't know 🤣🤣🤣

Funny; today we sinners all just sit amongst the congregation. I wonder; is it because they didn't have enough seats up front and center?

Does he know ??? 🤣

CovidImages need to be invested more than half19

Watching this documentary may leave the casual viewer with the mistaken view that Burns was some sort of atheist, proto-Marxist, free-loving, cosmopolitan Beatle who disdained all forms of tradition. As with many historical figures, one often learns more about the scholar than the subject when reading or viewing these interpretations.

Line dancing to me is how the devil and hitler spend their free time

With all due respect Mate , you know very little about the poetic fire of our dear Rabbi Burns . And as for a readin' - Nay , ye cannie read it like that !

So, John Lennon would approve of slave driving? 🤔