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Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands
Find out about the Glencoe Massacre.
(1/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands. They fell upon them without warning, killing indiscriminately. Who were the MacDonalds? Why did this atrocity happen?
Maddy and Anthony's guests today are Dr Allan Kennedy whose new book 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland' is out now and Lucy Doogan from the Nation Trust for Scotland's Visitor Centre in Glencoe.
Edited and produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
All music from Epidemic Sounds.
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