Scotland's national animal is a unicorn. The national flower is a weed. The national emblem's official motto translates as nobody provokes me with impunity. And the national anthem situation involves a song that contains a verse specifically asking God to crush the Scottish people. This is not a country that does things by halves.

In this episode, Lesley goes through Scotland's national symbols properly. The thistle and the Viking who stepped on one barefoot in the dark. The Saltire, one of the oldest national flags in the world, and the saint who chose a diagonal cross out of humility. The lion rampant, which is technically the personal property of the Scottish Crown and appears on approximately everything in every gift shop in Scotland. The unicorn, why it was chosen, and why it is chained, which turns out to be the most Scottish explanat ...