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Burning Questions

Rebels against Kings, racist science and the church.

• 28 mins

Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks

What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.

• 26 mins

Port Riots and Dogs' Lives

Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.

• 27 mins

Female Convicts and Invisible Agents

Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.

• 28 mins

High Flats and Dodgy Doctors

What was it like to live in a 1960s city in the sky?

• 28 mins

Striking Gold and Surviving a Nuclear War

Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.

• 28 mins

Legends

Border reivers, Highland ghosts and the truth about pirates...

• 27 mins

Pirates and Divers

Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.

• 28 mins

Fair Amazonians and Modern Morals

Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.

• 27 mins

Empire and Dominion

Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire

• 28 mins

Healing and Hurting

Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.

• 28 mins

Women, Witchcraft and Violence

How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.

• 28 mins

Single Mums and Teen Brides

A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s

• 28 mins

Assassination and Murder

Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee

• 28 mins

Royals and Railways

The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland

• 28 mins

Motorbikes and McDonalds

Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.

• 27 mins

Playing At Soldiers

Meet the first Normans in Scotland and go to war with the toy soldiers

• 27 mins

A Witch Hunt In The Family

What happens to an ordinary family in a witch hunt? Susan Morrison finds out.

• 28 mins

Curious Cures and Life on the Road

Fascinating cures in mediaeval Gaelic manuscripts and travelling life for Scotland's poor

• 28 mins

Seditious Sonnets and Groovy Togs

Swinging sixties boutiques of Glasgow plus Mary Queen of Scots and her dangerous poetry

• 28 mins

The Caribbean and ‘Chivalry’

Chivalry and oppression in mediaeval Scotland and the Caribbean

• 28 mins

Vikings and Fluorescent Bunnies

Scotland's 9th-11th century melting pot of cultures with added 20th century outsider art

• 28 mins

Cabbage, Surnames and Dungeons

Secrets of the rag trade and a wedding tradition with an unusual history

• 28 mins

Medieval Murder and Land Raids

Starved to death in a dungeon - did it really happen? Susan Morrison investigates.

• 27 mins

Rags and Religion

Glasgow’s vanished fashion industry and the minister who fell from grace

• 28 mins

Delivering Babies, Hunting Jacobites

An Aberdeen medical family, a sedan chair carrying hero & telling the future in the past

• 27 mins

An Island Tragedy and Wartime Holidays

Montrose’s Orkney-based invasion and the Scots who went their holidays in spite of Hitler

• 28 mins

War Wounds and Electricity

Mental health in Nelson’s navy, rehab in WW1 and the Highland all-electric home

• 28 mins

Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne

Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.

• 2 mins