Dear Scotland: Five Suggestions

Further to my post on Dear Scotland, the NTS have challenged me to guess which writer has picked which portrait. I am going to have a crack at it. Five at a time...

Cunningham Graham

Johnny McKnight is going to go for James Boswell. The monologue concerns that time he had a few too many cheeky Vimtos on the Grassmarket and woke up with a right howler in bed next to him.

Zinnie Harris choose Robert Louis Stephenson. A sequel to his famous novel, Stephenson relates the time that he was stuck in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and had to kill and eat a horse. In darkness.

Louise Welsh brings Robert Burns to life, through a story of how he took a bunch of dirty pictures of Mary Campbell and was the subject of a police investigation.

Rob Drummond has a crack at James I: a mild-mannered English king by day, he switched his crown at night to become James VI of Scotland, the Bonny Ruffian of the square-circle.

Hardeep Singh Kohli fancies Cunningham Graham: while cooking up a three course meal, Graham explains why he helped to found the SNP.