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Author Description George Robert Bruce was a Scottish poet, author and radio and television producer. He was born in Fraserburgh and the Broch and the Aberdeenshire coast were in his blood.<br /><br />Bruce attended Fraserburgh Academy and then Aberdeen University, from where he graduated with first-class honours in English in 1932. From 1933 to 1946 he taught English and History at Dundee High School and for the following decade he was producer of programmes for BBC Radio at Aberdeen. It was a post for which his deep understanding of the North-East made him ideally suited; the programme <i>Scottish Life and Letters</i> ran for over twenty years. In 1956 he moved to Edinburgh to work as a features producer for BBC television until his retirement in 1970; his production <i>Counterpoint</i> was the first television arts programme in Scotland.<br /><br />After retiring from the BBC he was theatre and literary critic for the <i>Sunday Times</i> until 1976; he became the first Creative Writing Fellow for Glasgow University in 1971, and took visiting professorships at several universities in the United States and Australia. He was an active member of the council of the Saltire Society, and wrote histories of that body, of the Edinburgh International Festival and of the Cockburn Society.<br /><br />His enthusiasms were not confined to literature and drama. He wrote about Scottish sculpture and the painter Anne Redpath. He also worked on a joint project with the painter John Bellany.

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