Helen Simpson

Here's a good comedy to listen to as you peel those hard neeps for your Burns Night supper. It's about young English lawyer Nicola (Sophie Thompson) whose work takes her to a Burns Night dinner in London, a corporate one. The water of life (aka whisky) flows and she's a bit put out by the general goings on. But then, as the evening continues, she starts to comprehend why the poetry of Robert Burns spoke to many a woman in its time, and still reaches hearts today. Nimbly dramatised by Liz Lochhead from a story by Helen Simpson.