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    Episode 4The Other Auld Alliance

    4/5 Stuart Kelly discusses Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys.

    Episode 3The Other Auld Alliance

    3/5 Stuart Kelly on the career of Willa Muir, who translated Kafka and other German writers.

    Episode 2The Other Auld Alliance

    2/5 Stuart Kelly discusses educationalists AS Neill and Kurt Hahn.

    Episode 1The Other Auld Alliance

    1/5 Stuart Kelly on the role that Prince Albert played in the invention of modern Scotland.

    Naomi AldermanStrange Beds

    5/5 Naomi Alderman describes a trip to the Arctic, where she spent much time confined to bed.

    John WalshStrange Beds

    4/5 Writer John Walsh describes sleeping in a hammock in the jungle in Guyana.

    Philip HoareStrange Beds

    3/5 Philip Hoare on spending a night in a hospital observation ward after falling off his bike

    Rachel CookeStrange Beds

    2/5 Journalist Rachel Cooke on spending a night in accommodation in the wilds of Scotland.

    Colin ThubronStrange Beds

    1/5 Colin Thubron recalls booking into a room that once belonged to a merciless Chinese leader

    SkinBlack and White

    5/5 Poet and writer Salena Godden explains her relationship with her skin.

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