2/2 Walter Scott's Castle - Secret Knowledge

• Secret Knowledge
First broadcast: 1 Jul 2013.
Episode 4/12 Novelist, poet and all-round cultural impresario Sir Walter Scott is renowned for inventing many of the myths of Scotland that still dominate how the country is imagined. His home in the Scottish Borders, Abbotsford House, brilliantly brings to life his romantic views of Scotland.

[@XhristinaMacey]

I have the pleasure of living next to the house and visit regularly

[@Ivanhoe2]

A splendid documentary, sympathetically presented.

[@johnedwards5147]

I am amazed, the more I hear of my distant relative Scott, how much we are alike from looks to reading to our wide variety of interest, but none more shocking than our interest in the occult, not as practitioners, but as the study of the science of it. Simply amazed.

[@annasummers5348]

It seems history wants to forget the Rutherfords. Old family documents shoe that Sir Walter Scott's wife was a Rutherford, and sir John Rutherford's family is intertwined with Scotts.

[@XhristinaMacey]

Anna Summers maybe they were not so interesting ?

[@athenassigil5820]

I loved this 2 part BBC doc and have read Scott Land as well, bravo! I love Scott and all his eccentricities......

[@ChanFu_]

I'm related to him. I'm from the Scottish clan " Amo Scott ".

[@athenassigil5820]

Mr.Ganja Very cool! Sorry for the late response!

[@Apulia2001]

Lovely documentary. Sorry to hear of Scott's sad ending.

[@chadsimmons6347]

This is good information, about a subject, i knew nothing about

[@humanfirst11]

First of all, please don't keep those treasure troves locked down in that age-old _castle_ , no one knows when it will come crumbling down or catch fire or worse!
Second, someone who's handling such centuries old books, should they have such big nails? You can't even feel the paper with your fingers first, you have to use your nails for turning the pages. Is that ok?

[@waltzwalter2198]

Interesting and enlightening...

[@alexkalish8288]

You can tell everything about a man from his library. I'd give my right arm just to catalog it.

[@elliotkey7961]

3@@@

[@Trombosilbo]

I insist, this guy was a poor writer

[@samuelkinison1356]

Says the one who fails to form a proper sentence.

[@robhaidheuch]

He was a lesser author than Robert L. Stevenson. I read a number of his books and wasn't impressed at all. Promoted by British Freemasonry, his Rosicrucian nonsense reveals his Kabbalistic leanings.