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

Time Travels: Women in politics, Dundee asylums and WWII bomber raids

Women in politics, Dundee asylums and WWII bomber raids

BBC Radio Scotland - Time Travels, Women in politics, Dundee asylums and WWII bomber raids

Comedian Susan Morrison on the 1918 election trail and a virtual reality Lancaster bomber.

Susan Morrison on Eunice Guthrie, the first woman to stand for parliament in Scotland. Plus the case notes of women in Dundee asylums and the experience of WWII bombing raids.

Mary Crichton, normally in charge of a large household with governess and servants, ‘contrived to destroy the water closet by putting in flower plants from the garden’ she was just one of many women from Dundee and Montrose who became ill after childbirth in the 19th century and was diagnosed with ‘puerperal insanity’. Susan Morrison talks to Morag Allan Campbell of St Andrews University about their lives. Moving forward in time, how does a virtual reality re-creation of a Lancaster bombing raid feel to someone who was really there on many of those raids? Former RAF tail gunner Geoffrey Payne steps into a VR recreation of the famous 'F for Freddie' BBC wartime recording and tells us about his recollections. Then we're onto the 1918 campaign trail with Dr Paul Philippou of Dundee University. It was the first election where women could stand for parliament and one women in a Scottish constituency put herself forward - Eunice Guthrie Murray. There were some pitfalls however, as she tried to play down her posh roots in Glasgow Bridgeton!

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