Rosemary Goring: Mary Stuart's Homecoming

Despite spending just 12 years in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots irrevocably shaped the nation; she inhabits our imagination like no other monarch. In Homecoming, literary editor Rosemary Goring ‘breathes life into this legendary queen’ (Southern Reporter), exploring the tumultuous Scottish years of her reign with fresh eyes. Hear Goring talk to Ruth Wishart about the iconic places that were the backdrop for Mary’s singular life.

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