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If you are running a book festival, it helps if you can feature a big name or two – and, if your event is in Scotland, they don’t come much bigger than a certain Robert Burns!

The celebrated writer had strong connections with Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway and this year’s Kirkcudbright Book Festival will include a talk about him by poet and biographer Robert Crawford, author of The Bard, pictured here, the book which tells the writer’s remarkable story.

The talk will be held at 7pm on Friday March 6, day two of the four day Festival in the Dumfries and Galloway town, and, given Burns’ enduring popularity, it might make sense to book your tickets early. You can find out all the details and purchase your tickets via the festival website at http://www.kbtbookfestival.org