Honorary Fellow: Association For Scottish Literary Studies
“If we investigate only by physical and chemical means, we can only get physical and chemical answers.”
Jeppe o the Hill. Holberg.
Commissioned by BBC Radio Scotland. Broadcast 1986. Director Stewart Conn.
Some academics had suggested that Holberg, regarded as the Danish Moliere, would translate very well into Scots. Perhaps he would, but a playwright versed in Danish and Scots would be required to test the academic assumption.
Forgetting the lessons learnt from The Misanthrope experience, I worked from an American translation of the original Danish. It was very hard work, good in parts, but finally unsatisfying.