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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where each week we choose some of our favourite pieces from the magazine and ask their writers to read them aloud.

I'm Patrick Gibbons on this week's podcast. Reporting from the Shetland Islands, William

Atkinson says that Scottish nationalism only goes so far. James Dellingpole provides a tribute to his gloriously unfiltered father.

Daisy Dunn wonders whether the challenge of entering the Roman's world

is so different to acclimatizing to another culture now,

as she reviews Mary Beard's Talking Classics,

The Shock of the Old.

And finally, in the arts lead this week,

Margaret Mitchell examines corporate dread and the institutional Gothic, as she reviews

the new psychological horror film, Back Rooms. Up first, William Atkinson. The S&P have had better

weeks. It's strange to think that it was only this month that the party won a staggering fifth

term in office, despite independence being no closer, and a record of failure on everything

from education to drug deaths. Perhaps the most remarkable result for the S&B leader John Swinney

was the election of Hannah Mary Goodlatte in the Shetland Islands. Since 1950, this is the first

time these islands had voted for someone other than the Liberals or Lib Dems. Good lad triumphed after a

vigorous campaign featuring windswept social media videos and three visits from Swinney. Before her

election, she ran an outdoor sauna business. But who cares about the Shetland Islands? That funny

bit at the top of Scotland, they put in weather reports. It's like only one bloke and two sheep actually living there.

In fact, the population is about 23,000, with some 290,000 sheep.

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