The Singer Story: Made in Clydebankย had its first showing on BBC One Scotland on Wednesday May 8, and thereafter on BBC iPlayer.ย It is not to be missed.ย The film was made by TVI Vision, whose executive producer, Maurice Smith, answers the questionsโฆ
There is no better way of gauging the morale of a nation than through its literary voices, and throughout the 1990s I turned avidly to the new wave of literary novelists such as Janice Galloway and James Robertson, crime writers such as Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, and poets such as Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay, Robert Crawford and Carol Ann Duffy, who were overturning the old assumptions left, right and centre.
