Inside the Mind of Robert Burns

• Movies
• 2020-01-21
• EN
• Released
• 0h 58m
• GB
• Documentary

• 0.0
• 0

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BBC Scotland, Caledonia TV Productions

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BBC Documentary Film

Storyline

Writer Alan Bissett explores the complex brain of Robert Burns in a quest to discover the real man behind the myths and reveal the conflicts in his life and work. Burns was a poetic genius, but full of contradictions. He was a lover of women, and an exploiter of them; a Republican firebrand, and a social-climbing government excise man; an advocate of freedom who almost became a Caribbean slave master. Alan examines the groundbreaking research that suggests that the poet suffered from bi-polar disorder, a condition that led him to have severe mood swings.