Episode 4

Series 5 Episode 4: Bomb Makers

Content warnings: This series discusses the use of explosives for terrorism. This episode contains sounds of explosions, discussions of terrorism including audio of calls to emergency services, statements from victims and descriptions of injuries as well as other content you may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.

Three devices were set up to explode within three hours of each other over one night in Glasgow 1883. Investigations have revealed that this was a deliberate act of terrorism. Now it’s up to investigators to discover who did this, how and why.

In episode 4 of the Dynamite Detectives, we ask who were the people who planned this attack and what was going on in the 19th century to incite these acts of terrorism?

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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.