Assassination and Murder

How do you write a persuasive letter in your poshest Scots to the Queen of England? Susan Morrison would like to know. So let's meet Annas Keith, Countess of Moray, at one time Scotland’s first lady. After her husband's assassination, she was trying to hang onto Mary Queen of Scots’ splendid jewels, Dr Jade Scott of Glasgow University shows us how Annas went about it. Leaping forward to Victorian times and Dundee’s extremely not posh Overgate, Dr Hannah Telling explores a murder in a tenement stair which reveals surprising things about the residents’ attitudes.