Being a Scot

`When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh Film Festival, the cabbie was amazed that I could put a name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to deliver a milk round here," I said. "So what do you do now?" That was rather harder to answer...' Being a Scot is a vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements. With Murray Grigor, co-writer, film-maker, friend and fellow Scot, Sean's personal quest has been to seek answers to some perplexing questions. How did Scots come to devise so many new sports and games? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive and influential architects been Scots? And where did Scotland's unreal blend of psychotic humour originate? Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions, whilst revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history. `A detailed, fascinating and beautifully designed study of Scottish culture and identity ... there can be no doubt that this is essentially Connery's work' `Valiantly surprising and deeply rewarding'