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Past Lives: Series 15

Past Lives: Series 15: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 15

BBC Radio Scotland - Past Lives, Series 15, Episode 5

Oil, mysterious underground chambers and tatties - Mark Stephen goes digging in Lothian.

Oil, witches, tatties and mysterious underground chambers - Mark Stephen answers your history queries in Lothian.

Oil, witches and tatties, and mysterious ancient underground chambers, Mark Stephen's going underground today in Lothian. Where were Midlothian's oil wells, Why were the good people of East Lothian so very keen on burning witches in 1662? And one of our listeners finally gets on a long-delayed school trip from 1947 to a mysterious underground 'earth-house'. Find out what one of those is, in Past Lives, this Monday at 14.05.

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