Scottishness.
Nigel Wrench in Edinburgh writes: "Here's one mischievous idea of Scottishness, by the graffitti artist Richie Cumming at an exhibition of street art at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, part of the Edinburgh Art Festival. It's all auctioned off on Sunday if you happen to be in Edinburgh.
The Enlightenment, a celebration of Robert Burns, the islanders of St Kilda, Rona Munro's new play The Last Witch -- Scottish history has been one of the themes of this year's mainstream festivals, but what version of Scotland have audiences been seeing and hearing?
It turns out that events with a link to Scottish history have been hugely popular -- at the Edinburgh Book Festival for instance, where I'll be broadcasting from later, even the most serious and political of talks and debates have sold out.
Live on PM, rain on the broadcast tent permitting, I'll be speaking to the historian and author Tom Devine, of Edinburgh University and to the author Eleanor Thom, whose debut novel The Tin-Kin draws on her own family's history as Travellers living in the north-east of Scotland, a history she says has been forgotten. More about her .
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