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Can Pakistanis play the bagpipes? Did Idi Amin like haggis? And what happened when 3000 Scots landed in Panama?

These pertinent questions and many more are explored in a special edition of the Fifth Floor reflecting on Scotland's historic referendum for independence.

We'll hear how the Scottish vote resonates for three Language Service journalists from Pakistan and Serbia - who witnessed convulsions in their own countries that gave birth to new nations, as well as one separatist movement that still rumbles on today, over 60 years after it was first conceived. Plus, we hear how the Russian and Swahili services covered the story.

91热爆 Mundo's Arturo Wallace - a Nicaraguan of Scottish descent - explores the remains of the ill-fated Scottish attempt to build a colony in Central America. And we hear from one of our lesser-known language services - 91热爆 Alba, our Scots Gaelic service. Iain MacClean tells us about bringing the world's top story to Scotland's 58,000 Gaelic speakers.

Finally, did you know that the celebrated Bengali writer (and Nobel Laureate) Rabindranath Tagore was a huge fan of the Scottish poet Robert Burns? We'll hear an appreciation of Rabbie from Bangladesh, as well as bagpipe lessons in Dhaka.