Episode 3

Series 5 Episode 3: Infernal Machines

Content warning: This series discusses the use of explosives for terrorism. Episodes will contain sounds of explosions, discussions of terrorism, statements from victims and descriptions of injuries as well as other content you may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

The explosion at Tradeston Gas Works on that night in Glasgow January 1883 was only one of many. Just two hours after the first explosion, a party of six spot a strange box in the middle of a bridge on Possil Road. Was this explosive box linked to the earlier explosion at the gas works? What can forensic science tell us about these events, the perpetrators behind them and their goals?

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Inside Forensic Science is an Adventurous Audio Ltd production for the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science (LRCFS) at the University of Dundee and was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.

The series is written and narrated by Pennie Stuart. The researchers are Heather Doran and Clara Morriss.

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The creative partnership behind Adventurous Audio is Pennie Latin Stuart and Dan Holland. We worked together as a team at the BBC for years—45 between us—producing an insane range of content, covering every conceivable topic from comedy to hard-hitting documentaries, food, the arts, science, music, sport and outside broadcasts, for just about every audio corner of the BBC - BBC Sounds and BBC Radio Scotland, Radio 4, Radio 3 and Radio 2.