The Declaration Of Arbroath
Robert Crawford, Kylie Murray, John Lloyd and Richard Finlay talk to Anne McElvoy about the significance of a letter signed by earls and barons in medieval times and now.
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath and Scottish politics today. She is joined by Kylie Murray, New Generation Thinker and Fellow in Early Scottish Literature at Cambridge University; Robert Crawford, poet and Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews; John Lloyd, journalist and author of new book, Should Auld Aquaintance Be Forgot -The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence; and by Richard Finlay, Professor of Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde.
Producer: Emma Wallace
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