However, Mark and Dan Snow's history hit.

The film, Braveheart, featured a man called William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson.

The other term, Braveheart, actually did not refer to William Wallace, originally referred

to Robert the Bruce King, Robert of Scotland as you became.

But with a liberal use of artistic license, Gibson turned William Wallace into the great hero

of the Scottish War of Independence and made him Braveheart.

What's the truth behind that myth?

Who was William Wallace?

When did he come from?

And how did he emerge to play a great part in that War of Independence from England in

the late 13th, very early 14th century?

You want a crushing victory over the English at Sterling Bridge, where battles were fought

before and since.

But he was then cast softly at the feet of the battle of Falcuck, another battlefield

that would see plenty more armies trampling over it before history was done.

And he ended up hanged, drawn, courted, butchered in central London.

The person to talk about William Wallace is of course Tony Pollard.

He's a legend of British history, archaeology and broadcasting.

He goes to battlefield zone locks, they're secrets by looking at the landscape and looking

for what lies beneath the soil.

And he's done lots of broadcasting, he teaches at Glasgow University.

And very excitedly as well, he's been a historical advisor on films like Outlaw King, the

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