
Episode notes
Hollywood has been coming to Scotland for decades. Sometimes it gets it spectacularly right. Sometimes it gets it spectacularly wrong. And sometimes it sends thousands of people to a castle in Lanarkshire hoping to find a shirtless man raking hay in the courtyard. He is never there. Lesley has checked.
In this episode, Lesley goes through Hollywood's Scotland honestly and with genuine affection for both films. Braveheart gets the fact-and-fiction treatment: the kilts are wrong, the face paint is wrong, Princess Isabella of France was three years old and in France, and the Battle of Stirling Bridge was won because of a bridge that the film removed entirely. Oh, and the title has never referred to William Wallace. That one still stops guests in their tracks.
Outlander gets the personal treatment: Lesley was a sceptic who read all the b ...
