Dr Yvonne McFadden and Susan’s mum Peggy Morrison on the history of the kitchen and especially the post war Glasgow kitchen - as Peggy had in the 1950s.

Dr Rebecca Mason - 17th century Glasgow women and their rights, legal presence and activity in the courts and why Glasgow used to regularly banish single women - kicking them out the city if they hadn't a husband or master.

Susan Morrison chats to Dr Nicky Small of the Perthshire duo Plaidsong who combines being a Jacobite historian with singing Jacobite songs. You’ve probably heard of songs like Land o the Leal, Will Ye No Come Back Again, Wi' a hundred pipers an' a', but you maybe don’t know the name Carolina Lady Nairne. Nicky sings her songs and tells her story. Then it’s off to the 17th century and the time of the witchhunts - Ciaran Jones of Edinburgh University opens up the strange Fife witch case where a husband accused his own wife and begged her to confess to being a witch. Moving into the later 19th century, Ashley Dee of the Open University introduces Susan to ‘refined cruelty’ the Victorian equivalent of domestic abuse by coercive control and the horrifying stories behind it.

Alistair Heather, Scots writer and presenter of BBC documentary The Rebel Tongue on Charlie Leslie, the Jacobite Minstrel who travelled the North East selling and singing Jacobite ballads;

Dr Hannah Telling on the use of 'Queen’s evidence' in a tragic rape case in Cupar in Fife 1853 - the victim was found dead in the river - police originally thought it was accidental drowning or suicide but then an anonymous letter blew the case wide open and showed it was rape - we crack the identity of the concerned citizen behind the letter, who turns out to be an incomer from Norfolk who wanted to see justice done.

If you like a cracking story and know that history is as much about the present as the past, then this is the podcast for you. Comedian Susan Morrison and producer/historian Louise Yeoman zip through the centuries exploring the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people.

With the help of a team of ‘history detectives’, they tune into cutting edge research and look at familiar things again. There are glorious fascinating human stories - sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes horrifying and chilling, or moving or thought provoking. It’s a big multifaceted grab bag of Scotland and Scots. From medieval queens to Susan’s mum; from Jacobite minstrels to sailors who fell off the rigging; from accused witches to Far East POWS.

Every episode is a chance to travel in time and discover a selection of stories from across the centuries. Episode 0 provides a taster.