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New 10-part podcast to accompany TV series Murder Trial

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The award-winning documentary series Murder Trial is returning to TV and BBC iPlayer later this year together with a new 10-part podcast series.

Inside The Murder Trial is a BBC Scotland and BBC Sounds co-commission, which looks into the case of Renee and Andrew MacRae who vanished in 1976.

BBC podcast tells story of Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort plan

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The story of Donald Trump’s contested plan to create a world-class golf resort in a coastal area of Aberdeenshire is told in a new BBC podcast.

Trumped is presented by journalist Anthony Baxter, who has made a trilogy of films tracking this story. Now, the BBC Sounds series will feature new and archive interviews with many of the key players in the story.

BBC podcast reveals tale behind return of stolen da Vinci masterpiece

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Olivia Graham with the Madonna of the Yarnwidner ©BBC

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, The Madonna of the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway in 2003 but what really happened?

The BBC podcast, The Missing Madonna marks the 20th anniversary of the art heist that set a record for the most valuable painting ever to be stolen in Britain.

It’s a nine-part series from the award-winning BBC Scotland podcast team

BBC Scotland podcast explores conspiracy theory about big legal names

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A true crime podcast series from BBC Scotland delves into a conspiracy theory that shook the legal establishment to its core in the 1990s.

The claim was that gay judges and lawyers, who were afraid their reputation would be damaged if their homosexuality was revealed, were posing a threat to the justice system.

A media feeding frenzy followed, which gripped Scotland for years.