Inside the Mind of Robert Burns (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Les Wilson
- Production companies: BBC Scotland, Caledonia TV Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/21/2020
- Run time: 58 min.
Movie description
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.
