Scottish History Out of Order
This is Scotland: a podcast about Scottish history and the places we made it.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Iolaire - A Tragedy Years In The Making
It is Hogmanay 1918. You've lived many lives. A drunk in Stornoway, a sheep farmer in South America, a deckhand in the Royal Naval Reserve. You've even done a bit of minesweeping in your time. But no…
He Giveth His Beloved Sleep - Remembrance & The First World War
Little Edgar - Why Do So Many Edgar Allan Poe Stories Seem Scottish?
It is 1815 and a little American boy sits cut off from his friends in a graveyard. As spectres, ghaists and ghouls rise up around him, Edgar Allan Poe is developing a taste for... even a fixation wit…
Will You Take A Walk With Me? - The Story of Jessie King (w/Dangerous Women)
Long Live The Hill - Football Bringing Miners Together
It is 1900. On a windswept football pitch along with ten of your best friends you're ready to face the best the coalfields have to offer. It's your pride, it's your village. The future is encroaching…
The Passionflower - Why Scots Fought In The Spanish Civil War
It is 1936 and people all over the world are leaving their homes to fight the forces of Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. But what is inspiring people to give up everything to fight on the Iberian Pe…
Napoleon’s Men - French Prisoners of War in Scotland
The Jigsaw Murders
It is 1935 and Dr Buck Ruxton has just committed murder. He is about to find out the meaning of 'modern investigation techniques'.
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The Shot Heard Round The World - The American Revolution
It is 1775. Do not throw away your shot.
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CREDITS
Scotland is written and produced by Michael Park and is a production of Be Quiet Media.
Additional voices for this episode were performed by Chri…
This Is No Utopia - Black Lives Matter
It is 2020. Black Lives Matter.
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CREDITS
Scotland is written and produced by me, Michael Park and is a production of Be Quiet Media.
This episode draws significantly from the work of Zandra Yeama…
A Monster In Loch Ness - Hunting Down Nessie
It is 1934. A photograph of the Loch Ness Monster takes the country by storm, all thanks to one lucky surgeon and his camera.
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Doc Croc - Murder in Polite Victorian Society
It is 1863 and there is a fire raging at the home of respected Glasgow doctor E.W. Pritchard... but that's just the beginning of this tale of Victorian intrigue, woe, and murder.
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Spy In The Ointment - Nazi Espionage in Dundee
It is 1912. Jessie and Frederick have just tied the knot. This a love story... and nothing ever gets in the way of true love.
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The Bruce’s Heart - What Happened To Robert The Bruce’s Body When He Died?
Buffalo Bill’s Wild Wild West
The Go Cart Murder
It is 1923 and if this wall could talk...
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CREDITS
This episode was written and produced by Michael Park for Be Quiet Media.
The human rotor cipher Mitch Bain is taking a wee brea…
Blue Death - The Spanish Flu In Scotland
The Greatest Conman - Gregor MacGregor’s Invented Nation
The Secret Santa - The First Mall Santa Was Scottish!
A little Christmas story to warm your soul on a cold winter's day. Sorry if you were expecting something darker.
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This episode was written and produced by Michael Park for…