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World Service,12 Aug 2002,26 mins

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Retracing Daniel Defoe's 18th Century journey, John Pickford reaches Scotland and Edinburgh - described by Defoe as "a subject of scorn and reproach...whose people delighted in stench and nastiness." So, what would Defoe think about the return of self-government?

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