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

Time Travels: The Scot Who Stayed in Argentina

The Scot Who Stayed in Argentina

BBC Radio Scotland - Time Travels, The Scot Who Stayed in Argentina

Time travelling to the World Cup of 1978 with Susan Morrison and Hamish MacDonald.

In our Time Travels World Cup special, we head to 1978 Argentina to hear the remarkable story of a Scots fan who stayed on for 15 years - Hamish MacDonald's cousin Alan Grant.

In our Time Travels World Cup special this week, we head to Argentina in 1978 for the remarkable story of the Scots fan who stayed on for 15 years. It's Hamish McDonald's cousin Alan Grant - who married Silvina from Cordoba, whom he met on manoeuvres with Ally's Tartan Army. But settling down with Silvina to raise a family meant that Alan was starting out family life under a brutal dictatorship which often murdered people who weren't too different to him in their outlooks. Dr Laura Webb of Swansea University who studies the literature of the Argentinian 'Dirty War' tells us more about just what the wandering Scotland fan was getting himself into for the love of football and love of Silvina. Hamish and Alan share the family story with Susan Morrison. And in our WW1 at Home series we meet suffragette Margaret Skinnider and find out from Dr Kirsty Lusk what Margaret did in the 1916 Easter Rising.

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