Summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Battle of Bannockburn of 1314. The culmination of a war of independence which had rumbled on for eighteen years, it paved the way for the restoration of full Scottish independence. Melvyn is joined by Matthew Strickland, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow; Fiona Watson, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Dundee; and Michael Brown, Reader in History at the University of St Andrews.
