This four-part podcast series, brought to you by The Skinny in partnership with We Are Here Scotland, explores the conversations, questions, creativity and reflections that emerged from Our Stories Between the Myths and Memories: a free weekend

Our Stories. EPISODE 3 - The stories we tell each other and ourselves

Feb 28th, 2023 31m 54s

Our Stories. EPISODE 2 - Joining the disparate dots

Feb 27th, 2023 29m 45s

Our Stories. EPISODE 1 - How we remember and reflect on the past

Feb 27th, 2023 22m 2s

#BlackHistoryMonth special with S.I. Martin

Oct 28th, 2021 35m 50s

In this episode S.I. Martin (Author and Historian), Natalie Milor (Curator) and Alasdair Campbell (Communities and Partnership Development Officer) discuss the newly re-opened DLB museum in the context of Black History Month.The group discuss

Tunya Investigates - Episode 5, Religion part 2

Mar 25th, 2021 10m 15s

In this episode of Tunya Investigates, we talk to Fizza who is one of our MGS Upskilling and Celebrating Volunteers Programme volunteers.Fizza has been doing some research into people who travelled with David and people who he met while trave

Tunya Investigates - Episode 4, Religion part 1

Mar 19th, 2021 8m 38s

In this episode, Tunya is speaking to volunteer tour guide, museum trustee and former Christian missionary Douglas Hay about David Livingstone's faith and how it might have impacted his life and work.As a former Christian missionary himself,

Tunya Investigates - Episode 3, Gender Inequality

Jan 27th, 2021 14m 50s

In this episode, Tunya speaks to Kate Simpson about the women in David's life including his wife Mary and his cook Halima. They talk about some of the difficulties of researching women's history and what Kate is looking forward to about the n

Tunya Investigates! Episode 3

Dec 22nd, 2020 8m 37s

Merry Christmas, here is a new episode of Tunya Investigates! In this episode, Tunya discusses faith and Christianity with Douglas, one of the museum's trustees and a former missionary worker.Enjoy!

Tunya Investigates! Episode Two - Factory Life

Dec 18th, 2020 9m 26s

Hello and welcome to another episode of Tunya Investigates! Today we're talking about David's childhood in Blantyre. What did he get up to every day? What were his interests? What were his family like? When did he start working at the mill? W

Tunya Investigates! Episode One - Conservation

Dec 7th, 2020 4m 6s

Welcome to Tunya Investigates! The new podcast brought to you by the David Livingstone Birthplace Project. Join Tunya the Lion as he learns all about the Museum Collection and about David Livingstone himself. Today we are discussing a very sp

Zimbabwean author, Petina Gappah on 'Out of Darkness, Shining Light'

Aug 27th, 2020 38m 55s

Petina Gappah (Author and International Lawyer) in discussion with Kate Simpson (David Livingstone Trust Trustee, University of Glasgow Lecturer, Livingstone Online Project Scholar)about her 2020 novel 'Out of Darkness, Shining Light'."This i

Inside the Birthplace Collection: Kate Simpson talks about about the Manganga (Man'janga) lip ring

Apr 20th, 2020 11m 23s

In this episode Dr Kate Simpson, Lecturer in Digital Media and Information Studies at the University of Glasgow, talks to Sophie Wylie, Museum Studies student at the University of Glasgow, about the Manganga (Man'janga) lip ring David Livingsto

Inside the Birthplace Collection: Kate Smith talks about a photograph album in the museum collection

Apr 14th, 2020 9m 45s

In this week's episode, Collections Manager Kate Smith talks to Sophie Wylie, Museum Studies student at the University of Glasgow, about a photograph album in the David Livingstone Birthplace Collection. The album likely covers a mission statio

Inside the Birthplace Collection: Lesley Scott on the cast of David Livingstone's humerus

Apr 6th, 2020 9m 23s

In this episode Conservator Lesley Scott talks to Sophie Wylie about the cast of the left arm humerus bone of David Livingstone (1813-1873), displaying the damage done to his upper arm when he was mauled by a lion. The condition of the bone ver

Kate Simpson interviews Justin Livingstone About Missionary Travels Digital Edition

Nov 21st, 2019 38m 5s

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857) is David Livingstone’s major literary accomplishment. It serves as the primary public statement of both his personal objectives as a missionary and explorer and his theories about the fut

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