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    I'm sure it has been discussed many times before but can someone please
    explain to me in simple terms (perhaps by way of a brief history lesson) why
    guile-gtk has has a Scheme interpreter.

Guile is a Scheme interpreter; that is its purpose, to be a Scheme
interpreter.

Have I misunderstood the question?  Have you perhaps misstated it?