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In the Footsteps - Series 2

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Well known Scots go in search of their Scottish heroes

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 1

Hannah Gordon goes in the footsteps of Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and discovers parallels with her own upbringing at a girls' school in Edinburgh.

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 2

Ricky Ross follows in the footsteps of painter Joan Eardley, in an an evocative journey from Glasgow School of Art to the windswept bay of Catterline in northeast Scotland.

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 3

Alison Miller follows in the footsteps of RD Laing, the Scottish psychiatrist who studied mental illness and wrote The Divided Self.

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 4

Writer and broadcaster Muriel Grey goes in the footsteps of Sir Hugh Munro, the man who first charted our highest peaks and who remains an icon to Scotland's mountaineers.

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 5

Actress Siobhan Redmond visits Kirriemuir, birthplace of playwright and novelist JM Barrie, to discover how his time there influenced his writing.

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In the Footsteps - Series 2 - Episode 6

John Beattie goes in the footsteps of John Logie Baird, the Scotsman who gave the world television, to discover the secret life behind the public image.

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