Writing Scotland is a major eight-part television series, made by Hopscotch Films, written and presented by Carl MacDougall and scheduled to be broadcast on BBC2 Scotland and BBC4 in 2004.

His name and image are everywhere – from Bank of Scotland fivers to the monument in Edinburgh’s city centre – yet who reads Walter Scott these days? Stuart Kelly explores the enigma of Scott and the disparity between his influence and his status, his current standing and his cultural legacy, in a voyage around Scotland.