BBC Radio Scotland

Witch Hunt is a history podcast hosted by BBC Radio Scotland. It has 8 episodes, with the latest published January 2024.

From 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

history ·en ·8 episodes