Grand Tours of Scotland's Rivers: A Handmade Tale

Paul Murton follows the River Irvine in Ayrshire, from its source close to Loudoun Hill, through ancient battlefields and the town of Irvine, and finally heading out to sea with a team of rowers. At Kilmarnock, he salutes the memory of whisky giant Johnnie Walker, and is shocked to learn how the national poet Robert Burns once contemplated emigrating to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation