Murchadh MacPhàrlain: Bard Mhealboist

BBC Alba HD

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Saturday 31 May

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Documentary profiling the Melbost Bard, the renowned Gaelic poet and songwriter from the island of Lewis, whose work was a catalyst for a whole new era of modern Gaelic music. Having composed poems and songs all his life, it was not until the advent of the tape recorder that Murdo, who could neither read nor write music, became known to a wider audience. The programme contains TV and radio archive recordings of Murdo in interviews, and also of him performing his work