Time Travels Podcast
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
Episodes to download
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Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.
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War Wounds and Electricity
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Mental health in Nelson’s navy, rehab in WW1 and the Highland all-electric home
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An Island Tragedy and Wartime Holidays
Sat 4 Feb 2023
Montrose’s Orkney-based invasion and the Scots who went their holidays in spite of Hitler
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Delivering Babies, Hunting Jacobites
Sat 28 Jan 2023
An Aberdeen medical family, a sedan chair carrying hero & telling the future in the past
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Rags and Religion
Sat 21 Jan 2023
Glasgow’s vanished fashion industry and the minister who fell from grace
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Medieval Murder and Land Raids
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Starved to death in a dungeon - did it really happen? Susan Morrison investigates.
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Cabbage, Surnames and Dungeons
Sat 7 Jan 2023
Secrets of the rag trade and a wedding tradition with an unusual history
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Vikings and Fluorescent Bunnies
Sat 9 Jul 2022
Scotland's 9th-11th century melting pot of cultures with added 20th century outsider art
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The Caribbean and ‘Chivalry’
Sat 2 Jul 2022
Chivalry and oppression in mediaeval Scotland and the Caribbean
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Seditious Sonnets and Groovy Togs
Sat 25 Jun 2022
Swinging sixties boutiques of Glasgow plus Mary Queen of Scots and her dangerous poetry
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Curious Cures and Life on the Road
Sat 18 Jun 2022
Fascinating cures in mediaeval Gaelic manuscripts and travelling life for Scotland's poor
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A Witch Hunt In The Family
Sat 11 Jun 2022
What happens to an ordinary family in a witch hunt? Susan Morrison finds out.
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Playing At Soldiers
Sat 4 Jun 2022
Meet the first Normans in Scotland and go to war with the toy soldiers
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Motorbikes and McDonalds
Sat 7 May 2022
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.
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Royals and Railways
Sat 30 Apr 2022
The woman who would be Queen - Elizabeth Stuart, First Daughter of Scotland
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Assassination and Murder
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Hanging onto Mary Queen of Scots jewels after an assassination plus murder in Dundee
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Single Mums and Teen Brides
Sat 16 Apr 2022
A war widow after Flodden plus shotgun weddings in the 1970s
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Women, Witchcraft and Violence
Sat 7 Aug 2021
How domestic abuse moves with the times, shape-shifting witches and women’s work.
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Healing and Hurting
Sat 31 Jul 2021
Highland doctors, ‘charming’ witches and desperate poisoners with Susan Morrison.
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Empire and Dominion
Sat 24 Jul 2021
Feisty enterprising women and one way to get independence from empire
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Fair Amazonians and Modern Morals
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Rowdy Dundonian women plus the dilemmas of living together then and now.
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Pirates and Divers
Sat 10 Jul 2021
Pirates, sunken Spanish silver and the enslaved Africans who dived for it.
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Striking Gold and Surviving a Nuclear War
Sun 31 Jan 2021
Devin Grier of Edinburgh University introduces Susan to the hazards of the 1849 Gold Rush.
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Female Convicts and Invisible Agents
Sun 17 Jan 2021
Female spies in the age of the Three Musketeers.
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Port Riots and Dogs' Lives
Sun 10 Jan 2021
Was it a dog’s life in 17th century Scotland? You could end up as gloves.
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Deadly Insults and Decisive Shipwrecks
Sun 3 Jan 2021
What’s the worst thing you can call someone? 16th century Scots had a lot of ideas.
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Private Lives
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Susan Morrison explores the rich and sometimes murky depths of Scotland's past.