Episodes

  • A Lighthouse - What Really Happened on the Flannan Isles?
    Jun 9 2025

    It is 1900. You are alone on Eilean Mòr, in the shadow of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse... where all of the keepers have disappeared. It's your job to find out why.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Additional production, mastering, and voices by Brian McAlpine. Music by Mitch Bain.

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    10 mins
  • The Poisoned Isle - When The British Government Used Anthrax In Scotland
    May 12 2025

    To celebrate our new partnership with The Big Light, we have revisited and remade one of the podcast's most popular episodes. This is The Poisoned Isle as you've never heard it before. Brand new episodes soon!

    It is 1942. On Gruinard Island, in a bay about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool, a flock of sheep are dying for the war effort.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Additional production, mastering, and voices by Brian McAlpine. Music by Mitch Bain.

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    14 mins
  • A Wee Update from Michael...
    Apr 2 2025

    Just a wee update from Michael on what's been happening in my life and what to expect from the next era of this podcast, which will now be known as Scottish History Out Of Order.

    Listen to Hunting The Whisky Bandits now

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    2 mins
  • The Scientist & The CIA - MK ULTRA & The Sleep Room
    Jul 19 2024

    It is 1959. You're at the mercy of Dr Ewen Cameron, his Sleep Room at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada, and Subproject 68 of something you'd never heard of called MKULTRA.

    CW: This episode contains references to and depictions of inhumane treatment which may be troubling for some listeners.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Music by Mitch Bain. Additional voices by Chris Moriarty, Mitch Bain, Meghan Crabtree, Sarah-Louise Kelly, Leanne Milne, Jamie Mowat, Alex Muncie & Panda McPanderson. Illustrations by Jamie Mowat..

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    15 mins
  • 138CE - Life on Hadrian’s Wall (with Max Miller from Tasting History with Max Miller)
    Jun 14 2024

    How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

    Michael is joined by Max Miller from Tasting History with Max Miller to talk about what life would have been like for ordinary soldiers living on Hadrian's Wall, and how the uncertainty that came with his death might have affected them.

    This episode is part one of a three parter - so make sure to subscribe to Scotland for parts two and three (I fall down a hole in one of them so... stay tuned).

    Subscribe to Tasting History with Max Miller here.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Production assistance from David Allan.

    Thank you to Max Miller for agreeing to be part of the episode.

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    12 mins
  • Robert Burns & The Rosamond
    Jun 1 2024

    It is 1792. Robert Burns is about to single-handedly storm a ship full of smugglers and kickstart the French Revolution... or is he?

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Additional voices by David Allan. Music by Mitch Bain. A special version of 'The Deil's Awa' Wi' The Exciseman' was recorded by Graeme Johncock of Scotland's Stories.

    You can get Graeme's book on Blackwell's here, and check out his website here

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    15 mins
  • Quintinshill - On Board Britain’s Worst Railway Disaster
    May 17 2024

    It is 22nd May 1915. Just before 6.50am. The troop special from Larbert is taking troops, mocked by politicians and Lord Kitchener himself, to the front lines at Gallipoli.

    But as it reaches Quintinshill, just outside Gretna, something happens that will change the course of history.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Additional voices by Aaron Richardson & David Allan.

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    12 mins
  • A Short Story About A Monck & A Leaky Ship
    May 3 2024

    It is 1651. General George Monck just can't stop turning heel... and today he's got Stirling Castle in his sights.

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    CREDITS: Written, narrated & produced by Michael Park. Music by Mitch Bain.

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    9 mins