Saint Andrew

How did a Palestinian fisherman who had never even heard of Scotland become the patron saint? Have the Scots got the wrong man?

Ian Hislop pieces together a rather unsaintly tale of Andrew the apostle posthumously elbowing out his local rivals to the title, only to be challenged in later years by a romantic drunk, a poet - and Mel Gibson.

Part of Ian Hislop's investigation into the conflicting and confusing history of the four national saints.

Producer: Philip Sellars.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.