To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Alan Riach, James Robertson and Gerda Stevenson read from MacDiarmid’s epic work and present Ayont the Thistle, a new anthology of essays and poems responding to it.

Music provided by the children of Black Mount Primary School.

Plus, Michael MacKenzie reads his personal selection of MacDiarmid’s work.