MYW: The Paisley Witch Trial

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We’re travelling to Paisley to learn about a witch trial that took place in 1696. Plus Laura looks at one of the biggest bank robberies in British history.

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Imagine a loved one, studying off for the day, and then not coming home.
0:11.7	You have 101 different questions and no answers.
0:15.7	The charity bike ride that ended in a missing person hunt.
0:19.9	Where did he go?
0:21.3	It's like where on earth could he have gone?
0:23.7	This is, are you going to be okay for this cycle?
0:26.2	And he said, I'll do it even if it kills me.
0:28.7	Crime next door, the vanishing cyclist.
0:31.2	My advice at that point was to get the police helicopter airborne.
0:34.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:43.9	Thank you. the police helicopter airborne. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello everybody.
0:45.1	Welcome to another episode of murder.
0:46.9	You wrote.
0:48.5	We are ready to get going, aren't me, Laura?
0:50.2	I'm ready to sink my teeth into it
0:51.5	like I was with the vampire.
0:53.2	That was a good one, wasn't it, earlier in the week?
0:54.7	Love to see what you did there.
0:55.5	It was lovely, lovely stuff. In these special bonus episodes, we break down some of the crimes that have taken place in your hometowns. You decide, you email us in, give us some good ones and if they're good enough, we'll do them. Where are we heading to this week? This week we are taking you to a town in the west of Scotland, Laura.
1:11.4	You are obsessed with Scotland.
1:13.1	It's produced an astounding west of Scotland, Laura.
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