1707: In the Footsteps of Defoe 2/4
Radio 4 - 3rd April 2007
Sarfraz Manzoor retraces the footsteps of author Daniel Defoe, a prominent supporter of the Act of Union, in southern Scotland in the 1720s.
In the 18th century the city was dark and overcrowded, but the Age of Enlightenment saw its reinvention as the cultural capital of Scotland.