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Susan Morrison chats to Dr Nicky Small of the Perthshire duo Plaidsong who combines being a Jacobite historian with singing Jacobite songs. You\\u2019ve 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\\u2019t know the name Carolina Lady Nairne. Nicky sings her songs and tells her story. Then it\\u2019s 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 \\u2018refined cruelty\\u2019 the Victorian equivalent of domestic abuse by coercive control and the horrifying stories behind it.