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Sunday Feature: The Northern Lights

BBC Radio 3
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The greatest period of intellectual ferment north of the border - the Scottish Enlightenment, personified by such luminaries as David Hume and Adam Smith - came in the first hundred years after the Act of Union of 1707. As the Queen prepares to open the new Scottish Parliament,
David Walker explores the relationship between ideas and political conditions and finds a striking contemporary resonance in the rich legacy of this period. Producer Simon Coates

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David Hume
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Adam Smith
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David Walker
Producer:
Simon Coates
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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