That the Parliament welcomes The Cause, a series of five programmes to be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland; believes that what it considers this major series will see Billy Kay explore the themes of identity, culture and politics in order to attempt to trace the development of Scottish nationalism from the earliest days of Bruce and Wallace to the founding of the SNP, the rise of civic nationalism, the Covenant Movement and what it considers to be the success of the reconvened Parliament; believes that Billy Kay is one of Scotland's finest broadcasters and cultural historians; understands that the series begins on 24 September 2012 at 2.05 pm and will be repeated on 29 September at 6.04 am and 1 October at 2.00 am; looks forward to hearing interviews with people who it believes have devoted their lives to the movement, including the former SNP party chairman, James Halliday, and the editor of The Scots Independent, Jim Lynch, as well as Winnie Ewing and the family of “King” John MacCormick; notes that there will be contributions from historians considered eminent, as Professor James Mitchell, Professor Richard Finlay and Professor Allan MacInnes from the University of Strathclyde, Dr Peter Lynch from the University of Stirling and Dr Fiona Watson from the University of Dundee; welcomes what it understands will be the strong cultural dimension of the series, with poetry from Barbour to MacCaig and readings from Burns, Scott, Stevenson and MacDiarmid; notes that the series will feature music and song, including Hamish Henderson’s, Freedom Come Aa Ye and its theme music will be by Cherrygrove, a band featuring Sarah MacNeil, a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland who composed  Free or a Desert  to commemorate John Baird, James Wilson and Andrew Hardie, the Scottish political martyrs of 1820, and congratulates Billy Kay on developing what it considers a timely series that will capture the mood of a modern nation with a rich, inspiring past and an exciting future.