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Radio Scotland,20 Jan 2026,30 mins

Series The Arts Mix

H is for Hawk, Seipan, and the Last Letter of Mary, Queen of Scots

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Award-winning author Helen Macdonald talks about the film version of her 2014 memoir H is for Hawk, starring Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson. It's in cinemas from Friday. New film Saipan is a fictionalised account of what happened between footballer Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy during their much-publicised fall-out at the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan, which saw Keane take the plane home before a ball was kicked. It stars Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke and Len hears more from screenwriter Paul Fraser. The last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, is going on display in Perth Museum this week, leaving its home at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh for the first time in a generation. Culture Perth and Kinross' Ashleigh Hibbins talks about Mary’s links to Perthshire and how, in those final hours of her life, she was trying to shape and control how her legacy would play out in the centuries to come.

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