The Man Who Made Scotland
BBC Radio 4, Wed 10th Apr 9am - 9:45am
Repeat: BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 LW -Tomorrow 9:30pm James Naughtie celebrates the return of Rossini's La donna del lago to London's Royal Opera House for the first time in nearly 30 years and argues that Walter Scott, whose poem The Lady of the Lake forms the basis of the opera, is still relevant today in shaping Scotland's image of itself and what it means to be Scottish. He suggests Scott's branding of the country marks him as a thoroughly modern thinker and analyses how his writing has inspired other works.
Presenter James Naughtie
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