Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 6 Music,12 mins

Tam o' Shanter

Cerys Matthews

Available for over a year

Fiona Ritchie reads Robert Burns' most celebrated poem. The music was composed and performed by Rab Handleigh and the sound engineer was Roy Ashby. (Picture shows Burns' masoleum in Dumfries, where Tam o' Shanter was composed in 1790).

Programme Website
More episodes