Programmes

PROGRAMMES BASED ON BOOKS

The Road to Independence? Radio 4: The Roots of Scottish Nationalism (5 parts)

Average daily audience 1.25m; 83% UK audience rating

Ric Bailey, BBC Head of Editorial Standards: ‘For me this is radio at its best. Its dead simple. All you need is a great mind, a great speaker-and a microphone…a warm voice…all the time driven by a passion to tell us more. These are rare gifts…’

Derek Bateman, BBC: ‘fascinating, enjoyable-and impeccable’

Scotland: the Global History: Times Radio, Radio nan Gaidheal, Times leader (19 August 2022)

Enlightenment in a Smart City: Britain’s Historic Towns: Edinburgh, Channel 4.

Robert Burns: The Scots Musical Museum: BBC 1, The One Show

Culloden: BBC 21 July 2016; BBC Radio Scotland, 14 July, BBC History Magazine, Radio Clyde

The Road to Independence ? Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4, The Daily Telegraph, The Week, El Punt, TV3 Catalunya

Celtic Identity and the British Image: BBC Radio Scotland

Jacobitism: BBC Radio Scotland

The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: CBC News

Murray’s research has been discussed in e.g. Economist, National Geographic  and has been featured on newspaper front pages (e.g. Financial Times, 21 March 2019) as well as in all UK newspapers on numerous occasions. Profiles in El Punt, Historia, TNT Radio

SELECTED RADIO & TV PROGRAMMES AND SERIES

TV series: BBC2, The Art That Made Us; Channel 5, 1000 Years of Scottish History, BBC 1 The Blood of the Clans, BBC2 Newsnight, BBC 2 Spinning a Yarn, BBC 2 Scotland’s Clans, BBC 4 History of Music, C4 The Tower, Jacobitism on TV 1995-

Radio 5: Radio 5 Live, History of Detective Fiction

Radio 4: In Our Time, Thinking Allowed, The World Tonight, The World at One, Inventing a Nation, History of Frying, Document, The Georgian Façade, Men of Fashion

Radio 3: Nightwaves, Freethinking

BBC Scotland: 50 Years of Reporting Scotland, Women with a Past, The Big Debate, Sunday Politics Scotland, The Week in Politics, Politics Now, The History of Scottish Literature, Council and General Election specials, Good Morning Scotland, the John Beattie Show, Newsweek, The Fred Macalauy Show, Mr Anderson’s Fine Tunes, The Usual Suspects, Tales of a Grandfather, The Colin Bell Programme, TGIF, Benchmark

RTE Primetime: Scottish Referendum Special