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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MW
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Join us on Susan Morrison's settee where a posse of historians will be telling us tales of witches and ghosts in a supernatural special. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MW
Susan Morrison finds out how to navigate a submarine up the Clyde and how to take a prisoner in a 16th-century war, plus an exhibition about abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MW
Susan Morrison tries a First World War flight trainer, finds out how mosquito bites were linked to malaria, and revisits the glory days of Irish hero Charles Stewart Parnell. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
In this special First World War edition, Susan Morrison follows up on a story brought to us by a listener about one Anstruther woman's experience of war.
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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
Susan Morrison finds out what's new, fun or fascinating in Scottish history throughout the centuries. Show more
29 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
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How an anonymous letter blew open a tragic case in 1853 - we crack the identity of the sender.
Plus the Jacobite minstrel who sang the news and a surprising benefit of slander. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
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. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
Susan Morrison gets a preview of the Diaspora tapestry before it returns to Prestonpans, explores the history of Scotland's love of curry, and visits Edinburgh's first curry house. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
Susan Morrison visits the Surgeons' Hall museums in Edinburgh with director of heritage Chris Henry and explores ghostly afterlives with historian Dr Martha McGill. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
Available for over a year
When teen boys were picked on by the moral majority in the 60s or preyed on by abusers of the 1880s Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
Susan Morrison travels back 700 years to find out how King Robert Bruce commemorated Bannockburn. Plus the Montrose women who married US servicemen in the First World War. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
From the Highland Heroines who helped influence today's NHS to the world's first library for working people in Leadhills, join Susan Morrison for a weekly does of time-travelling. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
Susan Morrison finds out about life for high-class royal nuns and explores Second World War weddings - spitfires on the wedding cake and brides in uniform. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
Susan Morrison explores Mary Queen of Scots's most terrible year and finds out about her grandson, Prince Henry, and his tragically short life. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
Available for over a year
The burgh of Ayr’s cunning plan to ward off bubonic plague - did it work? Plus a Highland murder and shopping on credit, 18th century-style. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands
From lion taming ancestors to the tale of the Boddam monkey, Susan Morrison mines the rich depths of Scotland's past in this exciting new history series for BBC Radio Scotland.
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Orkney
Available for over a year
Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves or getting shot by a queen, but it wasn’t all bad. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland MWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Shetland
Susan Morrison uncovers the forgotten stories of the medieval female brewers and the folly of 1839's Eglinton Tournament. Plus, the joy of the washing machine in 1940s Scotland. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Orkney
Susan Morrison finds out about The Family Home and goes on the trail of two executioners. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Orkney
Susan Morrison and archivist Daisy Cunynghame look at art in the asylum as a new exhibition opens in Edinburgh. Show more
