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Saint Andrew
How did a Palestinian fisherman who had never even heard of Scotland become the country's patron saint? Ian Hislop investigates. From August 2002.
How did a Palestinian fisherman who had never even heard of Scotland become the patron saint? Have the Scots got the wrong man?
Ian Hislop pieces together a rather unsaintly tale of Andrew the apostle posthumously elbowing out his local rivals to the title, only to be challenged in later years by a romantic drunk, a poet - and Mel Gibson.
Part of Ian Hislop's investigation into the conflicting and confusing history of the four national saints.
Producer: Philip Sellars.
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2002.
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