The Secret Letters of Mary Queen of Scots is a Lion TV and Gedeon Programmes production for BBC Scotland, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

Mary, Queen of Scots– ill, paranoid and desperate in her years of captivity under Elizabeth I – passed many of the long and ...

See how secret letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots, were finally decoded.

Mary, Queen of Scots (1578, detail), painted by Peter Oudry - Mila Tomisch Lochleven Castle is today a ruin, visited by tourists, but in the 16th century, for 11 months, it was the prison of Mary, ...

Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. By Susanne Fowler The messages, written while she was imprisoned ...

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Mary Stuart was proclaimed Queen of Scotland in 1542, when she was six days old – and this tiny infant would arguably go on ...

Robin Norton-Hale‘s revival of Liz Lochhead‘s renowned 1987 play for TheatreUpClose at the King’s Head is a lively affair, and the first full English production of a Scottish classic. Thanks partly to ...

Back in the 1970s, before neglect of women composers was recognised as an urgent issue (with resultant automatic entry to the Radio 3 playlist), there was at least one fine composer who bucked the ...

Making its ENO premiere, this critically acclaimed modern opera set 500 years ago tells the story that still resonates today. With hostile forces on every side, Mary I of Scotland attempts to secure a ...