Name: Unspeakable Scotland
Genre: Factual

Val McDermid - celebrated and best-selling Scottish crime writer - kicks off the very first episode of 'Unspeakable Scotland'.

1. Buck Ruxton / by Val McDermid

Factual

True Crime

Expect 'shock and aww, naw!' as we hear the gory details of an unspeakable true-life crime. Join Janice Forsyth, Scotland's top arts broadcaster, as she listens to the details of an arresting true crime story for the first time. 

Unspeakable Scotland

Series 1

Expect 'shock and aww, naw!' as we hear the gory details of an unspeakable true crime.

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Janice sits down with crime writer Douglas Skelton to hear the case of John Adam (1835). It's a tale of greed and murder in the Highlands, with a whisper of the supernatural.

2. John Adam / by Douglas Skelton

Crime writer and playwright Denise Mina tells the story of the Greenock Stowaways. In 1868, seven young Scottish boys boarded a ship bound for Canada and endured extreme hardship and cruelty.

3. The Greenock Stowaways / by Denise Mina

Chris Dolan (award-winning novelist and playwright) tells the story of the Appin Murder - a chilling tale set in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.

4. The Appin Murder / by Chris Dolan

On 14th May 1841, 50,000 people attended the last scene of crime execution in Scotland (the first in Glasgow since 1769).

5. Crosshill Railway Murder / by Willy Maley

On 17th March 1926, Bertha Merrett 'shot herself' with a pistol. However, the circumstances of the act were highly suspicious.

6. Buckingham Terrace Suicide / by Susan Morrison

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