Historical themes have been featured strongly in the output of Capercaillie, who played on the "Rob Roy" soundtrack.

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Third Division East Stirlingshire have signed former Stirling Albion defender Pat Clark, Scott Allison from Kirkintilloch Rob Roy and Mark Lukovich from Scottish Premier League side Livingston.

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Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Rob Roy.

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Cox's career did not take off immediately, but by the early 1990s he was appearing in more Hollywood blockbusters: he played Argyle Wallace in Mel Gibson's swords-and-kilts epic Braveheart, as well as Liam Neeson's Rob Roy the same year.

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It wasn't all one-way traffic: Scotland's first 'network production' a dramatised production of Walter Scott's novel 'Rob Roy' was the most ambitious radio drama so far attempted anywhere in Britain when it aired nationally on 6 October 1923.

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