Robert Burns

A Collection of Poems and Songs

By: Robert Burns

Narrated by: Full Cast

A collection of poems and songs by Robert Burns in an award-winning audio production by Almost Tangible. Set within modern and vivid soundscapes, this audio collection gives Burns' texts new resonance.

From the soullessness of a call center through the simple joy of a baby's nursery to the horror of the battlefields and all the way into space, this is a visceral roller-coaster through the poems and songs of Scotland's national bard. Robert Burns like you've never heard him before!

Produced with immersive 3D sound, we recommend listening on headphones.

Read by a full cast, this collection includes:

• "My Heart's in the Highlands" (read by Ross F Sutherland)
• "A Red Red Rose" (read by Eilidh Loan)
• "Scots Wha Hae" (read by Peter F Gardiner)
• "To a Mountain Daisy" (read by Sophia McLean)
• "A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter" (read by Lewis Rae)
• "John Anderson, my Jo" (read by Ross F Sutherland)
• "Ae Fond Kiss (read by Eilidh Loan)
• "The Bonny Earl of Murray (sung by Brigit Forsyth)
• "Tam O'Shanter" (read by Stephanie MacGaraidh)
• "Ye Banks and Braes" (sung by Tracy Wiles)
• "A Man's A Man for a' That" (read by Eilidh Loan)
• "Bottle and Friend (read by Tom Vanson)
• "Address to a Haggis" (read by Sophia McLean)
• "To a Louse" (read by Josh Manning)
• "Gin I Were a Baron's Heir (read by Peter F Gardiner)
• "Belles of Mauchline (read by James Robinson)
• "To Ruin" (read by Sam Garioch)
• "Sweet Afton" (read by James Robinson)
• "Pretty Peg (read by Sam Garioch)
• "A Red Red Rose" (sung by Josh Manning, Stephanie MacGaraidh, and Sophia McLean)
• "Address to the Toothache" (read by Tom Vanson)
• "To a Mouse" (read by Josh Manning)
• "Auld Lang Syne" (sung by Josh Manning, Stephanie MacGaraidh, and Sophia McLean)
• "Epitaph on My Own Friend" (read by Brigit Forsyth)

Public Domain (P)2022 Almost Tangible

Not very good. Gimmicky additions detracted from the poems.

The arrangers made strange artistic choices. The worst was recording several poems onto answering machines. I get the contrast or statement being attempted, but it just made listening to the poems hard. This isn't so much Robert Burns as a collage made out of Robert Burns.

Audio is Painful

The audio version is painful to listen to as they included background noise to accompany the poem. I was expecting a simple reading of the works of Robert Burns and this was not even close. Unless you can block out the background, I would not recommend this item. Fortunately, it was only a few bucks but I would have preferred spending those dollars on something else.