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Sep 9, 2026
Gary WestHOST
Um, [lips smack] and here's an interesting fact.
Gary WestHOST
She was the first female to hold the post of piper to the Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews.
Gary WestHOST
Uh, a very prestigious role, that one.
Gary WestHOST
Uh, Rachel was playing a beautiful set of Highland pipes pitched in A, made by Hamish Moore.
JamesHOST
Well, not, if you know.
JamesHOST
He attended the University of St Andrews, you mentioned, school.
JamesHOST
And he was in the same year and claimed to have been friends with Prince William and Kate Middleton.
JamesHOST
Whatever.
Malcolm GuiteGUEST
I myself had been part of a literary theological movement basically called Theology Through the Arts.
Malcolm GuiteGUEST
which started as a project in Cambridge at the end of the 90s and has now led to places like the Duke Initiative in Theology and the Arts and in St. Andrews University in Scotland, the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts.
Malcolm GuiteGUEST
I wrote my first big academic book as a defense of the imagination as at least potentially a truth-bearing faculty.
Malcolm GuiteGUEST
So there was recovery on that clearly going on.
Paul MalgratiHOST
Hello Gary! You are a poet, scholar and creative writing tutor based in the scenic harbour of Crail in the East Nuick of Fife.
Paul MalgratiHOST
You hold a PhD in Literature from the University of St Andrews and have won several poetry prizes over the years including the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and in 2016 the Wicton Poetry Competition.
Paul MalgratiHOST
That same year You also published Scotland, a literary guide for travellers with the publisher Taurus.
Paul MalgratiHOST
Since then, you have authored two poetry books, both with a deep ecological theme and both published by Irish Pages.
Charlie SykesHOST
So let's dive in.
Charlie SykesHOST
And our special guest this week is Phillips O'Brien, author of the indispensable Substack Phillips newsletter and a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, who joins us from across the pond.
Charlie SykesHOST
Welcome back, Phillips.
Charlie SykesHOST
Thanks for having me again.
Jesse WegmanGUEST
He won a scholarship there.
Jesse WegmanGUEST
He couldn't afford it at St. Andrews University and then at Glasgow University.
Jesse WegmanGUEST
And these are two of the centers of the Scottish Enlightenment, which really was this explosion of intellectual thought and democratic belief that has still informs the world today.
Jesse WegmanGUEST
You know, from David Hume to Adam Smith, Thomas Reed, Francis Hutcheson, all these names that everyone's familiar with.
Miles K. DonahueHOST
We
Kevin ScharpGUEST
moved and to Scotland, went to St. Andrews right after that.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
Right.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
I got the, I did that prep.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
This is crazy.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
I did that prep about a month after the, Allison and I got the job offers at St. Andrews.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
So I did all that stuff in the middle of like selling our house, selling our car, finding a house, getting visas, moving.
Kevin ScharpGUEST
Like we had two, we had twin, premature twin girls at the time that had been, that were only like seven months old.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
So I exhausted the available print sources, secondary sources that are already out there very quickly and decided I'm going to have to just undertake primary archival research.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
And I do have a master's in Scottish history from the University of St Andrews.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
So fortunately, between my Scots language expertise, remembering that historical Scots is the language of the nation at this time, so all the sources are in historical Scots.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
and my Scottish history degree, I was in a position to go looking.
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Ashley DouglasGUEST
As you mentioned, a lot of the siblings, as ever, we know much more about the men than we do about the women.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
We know about her brother's illustrious political careers.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
They all obviously studied at the University of St Andrews.
Ashley DouglasGUEST
They went off to pursue their studies on the European continent.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
And by the way, I'm not the only one who mentioned that it was Natalie who probably posted the AI slop of the attack on Harg Island.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
One guy, Phillips O'Brien, the University of St. Andrews, said, Poor Natalie got confused between Harg Island and La Rock Island.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Worshipping can be such exhausting business.
Roxanne KincaidHOST
Ron Filipkowski said, Trump is winning the Iran war in the AI world Natalie Harp has created for him.
SandyAUDIENCE
If you give the public live video of plane loads of people being deported who came here illegally...
SandyAUDIENCE
I think the public will learn to cope with the fact that there's a few girls studying philosophy and English literature at St Andrews University.
Petrie HoskenHOST
You could be right.
Petrie HoskenHOST
You could be right that there would be a more balanced view of migrants, that there would be the case of going, well, look, if they're legal and they've come through the right channels and they're likely to leave after five years, then fine.
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