Podcast Episodes
Back to Search191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa
Season 10 Episode 6
The extraordinary lives of three Scotsmen - John Henderson, Richard Oswald, and David Livingstone - encapsulate the polarities of the Scottish experi…
1 year, 3 months ago
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India
Season 10 Episode 5
In the wake of Culloden, much of Scotland was on its knees. Crippled by defeat and the subsequent backlash of the British government, along with fami…
1 year, 3 months ago
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand
Season 10 Episode 4
Few battles in history have been remembered as powerfully, nor been as mythologised, as Culloden on the 16th of April 1746. Under the leadership of C…
1 year, 3 months ago
188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender
Season 10 Episode 3
In 1688 the Stuart King James II was ousted from the throne by his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, in what is called the Glorious Re…
1 year, 3 months ago
187. The Birth of Britain
Season 10 Episode 2
With the accession of James I and VI in 1603, Scotland was assimilated into the composite monarchy of the United Kingdom. James, an eccentric, insecu…
1 year, 4 months ago
186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis
Season 10 Episode 1
When charting the rise of Scotland’s global influence, few events have been as tragically remarkable as the Darien Scheme of 1698, which saw woefully…
1 year, 4 months ago
185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat
Season 7 Episode 12
In the 9th century AD, two years after the Holy Roman Empire was established in Western Christendom, another world-shaking empire was rising in the e…
1 year, 4 months ago
184. The Buddhist Merlin
Season 7 Episode 11
While in the West the legends of King Arthur were being born, a Buddhist tantric magician of immense magical powers - Vajrabodhi - was enshrining him…
1 year, 4 months ago
183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia
Season 7 Episode 10
India’s transformation of the ancient world is indisputable, and tangible evidence of this can be found in the magnificent Hindu and Buddhist temples…
1 year, 4 months ago
182. The Lady Macbeth of China
Season 7 Episode 9
Having garnered absolute power through bloody means, Empress Wu Zetian begins seeing apparitions, haunted by her violent schemes. With her husband in…
1 year, 4 months ago