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Time Travels

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

Radio Scotland,44 episodes

Episodes

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Spirit Guides and Spinsters
Flats for single women in Glasgow, witchcraft in Ayrshire and VD in the 18th century.
21 Jun 2020,27 mins
Bad Husbands and Scottish Songs
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
28 Jun 2020,28 mins
Glasgow Women and Yellow Formica
Tales of feistiness and formica as we meet the women of the west.
28 Jun 2020,28 mins
Time Travels Trailer
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
28 Sep 2020,4 mins
Queen's Evidence and Wandering Minstrels
The Scottish history podcast for people who know that history is never truly in the past.
01 Oct 2020,28 mins
Pirates and Queens
If you thought pirates only infested the Caribbean, think again!
22 Oct 2020,28 mins
The Face of a Witch
How to reconstruct the face of an accused witch. First find your witch’s skull...
28 Oct 2020,28 mins
Poltergeists and Warlocks
Poltergeists, warlocks, devils and oh my!
28 Oct 2020,28 mins
Highland Bandits and POWs
The dreadful truth about Highland Bandits.
05 Nov 2020,27 mins
Bubonic Plagues and Highland Murder
What do you do when a plague approaches? Repent for your juiciest sins now!
12 Nov 2020,27 mins
Contraception Clinics and Statue Smashers
When contraception is a dirty word, how do you open a clinic in 1920s Aberdeen?
22 Nov 2020,27 mins
Sex and the Single Girl
Sex and the single girl in the 17th century and in the 1970s
29 Nov 2020,27 mins
Animal Magic
Beetles, human leopards and a royal parrot get their moment in history
06 Dec 2020,28 mins
Boys in Trouble
Boys in trouble - scapegoated in the 1960s, preyed upon in the 1880s by a dangerous conman
13 Dec 2020,27 mins
Private Lives
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
20 Dec 2020,28 mins
Burning Questions
Rebels against Kings, racist science and the church.
27 Dec 2020,28 mins
Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks
What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.
03 Jan 2021,26 mins
Port Riots and Dogs' Lives
Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.
10 Jan 2021,27 mins
Female Convicts and Invisible Agents
Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.
17 Jan 2021,28 mins
High Flats and Dodgy Doctors
What was it like to live in a 1960s city in the sky?
24 Jan 2021,28 mins
Striking Gold and Surviving a Nuclear War
Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.
31 Jan 2021,28 mins
Legends
Border reivers, Highland ghosts and the truth about pirates...
03 Jul 2021,27 mins
Pirates and Divers
Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.
10 Jul 2021,28 mins
Fair Amazonians and Modern Morals
Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.
17 Jul 2021,27 mins
Empire and Dominion
Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire
24 Jul 2021,28 mins
Healing and Hurting
Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.
31 Jul 2021,28 mins
Women, Witchcraft and Violence
How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.
07 Aug 2021,28 mins
Single Mums and Teen Brides
A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s
16 Apr 2022,28 mins
Assassination and Murder
Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee
23 Apr 2022,28 mins
Royals and Railways
The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland
30 Apr 2022,28 mins