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Radio 3,25 Jun 2015,45 mins

Tales of Scotland: A Nation and its Literature

Free Thinking

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Anne McElvoy is joined by Janice Galloway to talk about using minute observations to tell the stories in her new collection, Jelly Fish; hears from one of the 2015 New Generation Thinkers, poet and writer Peter Mackay about the special opportunities Gaelic offers the imagination and discusses Scottish transformation and identity filtered through a complex DNA of peoples, languages, land, highlands and islands with Scottish Cultural Historian,Murray Pittock and the writer and poet, Kathleen Jamie. Image: Janice Galloway.

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