Witch Hunt
BBC Radio ScotlandFrom the 16th to the early 18th centuries, witch hunts took place in Scotland. In this podcast series Susan Morrison, along with Dr Louise Yeoman and a team of expert historians, explores how events aligned to allow this to happen. How did it get to the stage where many innocent people, mostly women, were executed for imaginary crimes
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 8 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Category | History | ||||
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Susan Morrison and Len Pennie explore what it takes to be King in medieval Scotland, where ruthlessness and brutality where qualities at the top of the job description.
The Devil was loose in Scotland possessing frightened youngsters - or was he? Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman find what our historians think was going on
Scotland carried out five times more executions per capita for witchcraft than the European average but how did people come to believe in such a thing and what did they believe about it? Our top-notch panel of Scottish historians are here to take you... more
Curses and quarrels abound as Susan Morrison and Louise Yeoman investigate Scotland's war on witches and witchcraft with the help of a team of expert historians.
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Superb. This is a brilliant podcast and I dearly wish there were many more episodes
Apple Podcasts5Fitzmeg
New Zealand2 years ago - Interesting
Interesting podcast, but no one taking part seems to consider Ergot poisoning as a potential reason for people’s symptoms 🤔
Apple Podcasts2TeeJai6
United Kingdom2 years ago - Amazing podcast
I love it so much I’m Scottish so sorry for all the women that were killed
Apple Podcasts5👐🏻🫵🏻
United States3 years ago - Fascinating stuff!!
Really interesting podcast, I have binge listened in an afternoon. Wish there were more.
Apple Podcasts5BetNMontiUnited Kingdom5 years ago - Horrible background noise.
The content I heard and the presentation is absolutely brilliant but I just physically could listen to the whole of the first episode. There is a really, really horrible background noise, it’s a low frequency noise that I’m sure is meant to be atmospheric but the frequency is such that it actually made be feel extremely sick, off balance, like travel sick. I know this is my problem but low frequency noises like that used in at least the first half of episode one are a fairly common problem for m... more
Apple Podcasts3please noUnited Kingdom5 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #205 | United Kingdom/History |
Apple Podcasts | #218 |  Italy/History |
Apple Podcasts | #226 |  Australia/History |
Apple Podcasts | #58 |  Finland/History |
Apple Podcasts | #239 |  Spain/History |
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