Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Calvin makes the Scots gloomy

I watched The Scots: Natural Born Sinners on the iplayer and it puts the gloom of the Scots down to John Calvin. Interesting stuff. Despite Calvin and Knox producing repressed dour Scots Piper is still a fan.

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