Rabbie Biopic Set to Run at Ayr Races; Burns Film to Premiere at Horsetrack 'Drive-In'

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The first feature film based on the life of Robert Burns to be made since 1937 will be given its UK premier just a few miles from the poet's Ayrshire birthplace.

Ayr Racecourse, the home of the Scottish Grand National, is to be transformed into a massive drive-in movie venue to screen the film.

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Rabbie Biopic Set to Run at Ayr Races; Burns Film to Premiere at Horsetrack 'Drive-In'

Made by the Mauchline-based film company Palm Tree Productions, Red Rose will tell the story of the poet's support for revolutions in both France and Scotland while he was a government employee as well as his adulterous affairs, most notably with Maria Riddell. Burns's fall from 18...

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