BBC Radio Podcasts from Time Travels
Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.
Delivering Babies, Hunting Jacobites
An Aberdeen medical family, a sedan chair carrying hero & telling the future in the past
War Wounds and Electricity
Mental health in Nelson’s navy, rehab in WW1 and the Highland all-electric home
An Island Tragedy and Wartime Holidays
Montrose’s Orkney-based invasion and the Scots who went their holidays in spite of Hitler
Rags and Religion
Glasgow’s vanished fashion industry and the minister who fell from grace
Medieval Murder and Land Raids
Starved to death in a dungeon - did it really happen? Susan Morrison investigates.
Cabbage, Surnames and Dungeons
Secrets of the rag trade and a wedding tradition with an unusual history
Vikings and Fluorescent Bunnies
Scotland's 9th-11th century melting pot of cultures with added 20th century outsider art
The Caribbean and ‘Chivalry’
Chivalry and oppression in mediaeval Scotland and the Caribbean
Seditious Sonnets and Groovy Togs
Swinging sixties boutiques of Glasgow plus Mary Queen of Scots and her dangerous poetry
Curious Cures and Life on the Road
Fascinating cures in mediaeval Gaelic manuscripts and travelling life for Scotland's poor
A Witch Hunt In The Family
What happens to an ordinary family in a witch hunt? Susan Morrison finds out.
Playing At Soldiers
Meet the first Normans in Scotland and go to war with the toy soldiers
Motorbikes and McDonalds
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
Royals and Railways
The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland
Assassination and Murder
Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee
Single Mums and Teen Brides
A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s
Women, Witchcraft and Violence
How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.
Healing and Hurting
Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.
Empire and Dominion
Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire
Fair Amazonians and Modern Morals
Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.
Pirates and Divers
Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.
Legends
Border reivers, Highland ghosts and the truth about pirates...
Striking Gold and Surviving a Nuclear War
Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.
High Flats and Dodgy Doctors
What was it like to live in a 1960s city in the sky?
Female Convicts and Invisible Agents
Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.
Port Riots and Dogs' Lives
Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.
Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks
What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.
Burning Questions
Rebels against Kings, racist science and the church.
Private Lives
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
Boys in Trouble
Boys in trouble - scapegoated in the 1960s, preyed upon in the 1880s by a dangerous conman
Animal Magic
Beetles, human leopards and a royal parrot get their moment in history
Sex and the Single Girl
Sex and the single girl in the 17th century and in the 1970s
Contraception Clinics and Statue Smashers
When contraception is a dirty word, how do you open a clinic in 1920s Aberdeen?
Spirit Guides and Spinsters
Flats for single women in Glasgow, witchcraft in Ayrshire and VD in the 18th century.
Bubonic Plagues and Highland Murder
What do you do when a plague approaches? Repent for your juiciest sins now!
Highland Bandits and POWs
The dreadful truth about Highland Bandits.
Poltergeists and Warlocks
Poltergeists, warlocks, devils and oh my!
The Face of a Witch
How to reconstruct the face of an accused witch. First find your witch’s skull...
Pirates and Queens
If you thought pirates only infested the Caribbean, think again!
Glasgow Women and Yellow Formica
Tales of feistiness and formica as we meet the women of the west.
Bad Husbands and Scottish Songs
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
Queen's Evidence and Wandering Minstrels
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
Time Travels Trailer
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.