This Is Scotland with The Scots Magazine
Jun 15, 2026 · 47 min · 11 segments
Why doesn't Scotland have an official national anthem? In this episode of This is Scotland, Ally Heather and Coinneach MacLeod, the Hebridean Baker, explore the story behind Flower of Scotland…
Ally HeatherHost
Coinneach MacLeodHost
So national anthems is something, obviously this year we've got the World Cup, uh-
Uh, but also got the Commonwealth Games, uh, which is, like, an actual world stage that, so both world stages where Scotland has to have a national anthem.
And I hadn't really realized how, uh, uh, fluid it's been over the years, 'cause there's never been a piece of legislation saying, "Here's our national anthem.
Well, it's like s- uh, oh, so some of them, and I, actually, I'd be really struggling to sing these.
So we, uh, at Commonwealth Games, the original one was Scots Wha Hae, which is, honestly, folks say, uh, Flower of Scotland can be a wee bit anti-English, right?
Like, it's, and it's, I think, I think Rabbie Burns wrote that to the tune of Hey Tutie Tatie.
The pipe tune that was n- uh, notionally played as the troops marched to Bannockburn.
So national anthems is something, obviously this year we've got the World Cup, uh-
Uh, but also got the Commonwealth Games, uh, which is, like, an actual world stage that, so both world stages where Scotland has to have a national anthem.
And I hadn't really realized how, uh, uh, fluid it's been over the years, 'cause there's never been a piece of legislation saying, "Here's our national anthem.
Well, it's like s- uh, oh, so some of them, and I, actually, I'd be really struggling to sing these.
So we, uh, at Commonwealth Games, the original one was Scots Wha Hae, which is, honestly, folks say, uh, Flower of Scotland can be a wee bit anti-English, right?
Like, it's, and it's, I think, I think Rabbie Burns wrote that to the tune of Hey Tutie Tatie.
The pipe tune that was n- uh, notionally played as the troops marched to Bannockburn.
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