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ANNIVERSARY The farmhand who became one of Scotland's most versatile storytellers

JAMES HOGG defies categorisation. A prolific poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist, short-story writer and parodist, he wrote with equal skill in Scots and English.
Labelled the Ettrick Shepherd, the former Borders farmhand, whose life spanned the 18th and 19th centuries, befriended many of the great writers of his day, including Walter Scott, John Galt and Allan Cunningham.
Even though he was celebrated off and on in his own lifetime, some details of the author’s life remain unclear. Records place his baptism on December 9 1770, but Hogg long believed that he had been born on January 25 1772 Burns Night, no less.
This complicates attempts to commemorate his 250th birthday, unless we embrace his fantastical world view. Fiction mattered to him more than fact. Besides, Hogg’s sestercentennial will inevitably be overshadowed by Scott’s own such celebration on August 15 this year. ....

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BBC Radio Scotland FM BBC Radio Scotland FM December 8, 2017 170000

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BBC World Service BBC World Service October 24, 2017 150600

It government said it would impose direct rule on the region if that s approved by the Spanish Senate on Friday that would mean the Catalan leader cutlass put him on losing all his powers according to the Spanish deputy prime minister Soraya Santamaria but it is then that that the what other thought on the table of the president of the Catalonian government will no longer be the president when this article is agreed on he will no longer have the title of president he will not be able to make decisions for others over his own government he would not be able to carry out his functions he will stop being paid as president and he will stop having access to everything that goes with being a president of the government of Catalonia because he will no longer be that the Council on Parliament is to meet this week to discuss its next move but the foreign affairs spokesman for the Catalan Government s made it clear that regional officials won t follow orders from Madrid role remember also said ....

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