Odyssey: Voices from Scotland's Recent Past

by Billy Kay (Editor), Owen Dudley Edwards (Preface), Angus Martin (Contributor)

Oral history collected for BBC Scotland's Odyssey series.

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Billy Kay is a writer, broadcaster and language activist. Born in Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1951, he studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his study on the history and current status of the Scots language, Scots: The Mither Tongue (1980), which became the basis for a television series broadcast in 1986.