Hellfire And Herring

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05 LAST20070119Hellfire and Herring

Acclaimed Scottish writer Christopher Rush reads from his new memoirs - a vivid and richly poetic account of his post-war childhood in the small Fife fishing village of St Monans, where 'you could smell God on the air... as surely as you could smell the herring'.

5/5. The King My Father

Christopher describes his relationship with his drunken and abusive father; and discovers the power of the written word.

Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young.

Christopher Rush reads from his memoir of childhood in a small Scottish fishing village

05 LAST20070120Hellfire and Herring

Acclaimed Scottish writer Christopher Rush reads from his new memoirs - a vivid and richly poetic account of his post-war childhood in the small Fife fishing village of St Monans, where 'you could smell God on the air... as surely as you could smell the herring'.

5/5. The King My Father

Christopher describes his relationship with his drunken and abusive father; and discovers the power of the written word.

Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young.

Christopher Rush reads from his memoir of childhood in a small Scottich fishing village