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The Darién Gap, or: the Real Reason Scotland Lost Its Independence

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:39:27
Publish Date: 2025-03-18 13:49:54
Description:

Scotland is a fascinating place, with its own rich culture, cuisine and history. Today, it's part of the United Kingdom -- but this wasn't always the case. Join Ben, Noel and Max as they dive into Scotland's wildly ambitious plan to build a colonial trade empire straddling the Pacific and the Atlantic. At enormous expense, Scotland gambled everything on taming the Darién Gap... and lost.

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