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The EssayFive Imaginary Scottish PlacesEpisodes

    Brigadoon

    5/5Stuart Kelly discusses Brigadoon, the village of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.

    Unthank

    4/5Stuart Kelly explores the fictional city Unthank, from Alasdair Gray's 1981 novel Lanark.

    Duncairn

    3/5Stuart Kelly discusses author Lewis Grassic Gibbon's fictional Scottish town Duncairn.

    Thrums

    2/5Literary critic Stuart Kelly discusses JM Barrie's fictional Scottish town called Thrums.

    Show Me the Way to Tillietudlem

    1/5Literary critic Stuart Kelly explores the fictional locations of novelist John Galt.