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Dr Allan Kennedy on Gilderoy the Highland bandit and the truth behind Highland outlaws, not the handsome bare-chested warriors of the covers of romance novels but actually more like Begbie from 'Trainspotting' in a kilt.

Ally Heather on Andy Coogan his grandad who was a POW in Japan working in a forced labour camp thirty miles from Nagasaki when the second atom bomb dropped and his experiences when he began his return home through the devastated city.

Marenka Thompson Odlum is a PhD researcher on slavery connections to Glasgow's museum connections. She also led Black history walks around the city and was always struck by the David Livingstone statue panels - one of the few depictions of people of colour on public art in Glasgow. When you stop to look at them, they tell a story of everyday racism.