The Real Outlander

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How real to true events is the Outlander series?

The Jacobite uprising of the 18th century was led by Bonnie Prince Charlie to reclaim the thrown of Great Britain for the Stuarts.

Recruiting Highland clans along the way, they put up a good fight.

Anyone who's followed the series will know how brutal it could be, but what really happened? Did Prince Charles really flee the British army dressed as an Irish spinning maid? And were the sex scenes accurate to the time?

Today Kate is joined by Sarah Fraser, author of The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel And Double Agent. Sarah has family connections to the Fraser clan who fought in the uprising, so who better to speak to!

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hello my lovely betwixters! I thought I could do a Scottish accent when I started that and
0:08.0	then what came out my mouth was just dreadful. I'm so sorry betwixters. I should have given you a fair dews weren't in for that.
0:15.6	All right I will I will desist with the Scottish accent but the reason that I was attempting
0:20.5	that is because today we are talking about the history of the real
0:24.0	outlander and it is pretty juicy let me tell you so you do need a fair
0:29.6	news warning and here it is this is an adult podcast spoken by adult to other adults about
0:33.8	adult things in an adult way and covering a range of adult subjects and you
0:36.9	should be an adult too. And now we've got that little lot out of the way, on
0:41.7	with the show. Following the defeat at the Battle of Colodden in 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie, leader of the Jacobean uprising, was forced to flee for his life to the Highlands.
1:01.0	The pursuing Redcoat Army were hot on his tail and seeking retribution.
1:06.6	He met an unlikely ally in Flora McDonald, who had plenty to risk herself, by the way, with both a stepfather and a fiance fighting for King George II.
1:17.0	But she agreed to help, disguising Prince Charles as an Irish spinning maid called Betty Burke and arranging for Boatsman to take him
1:26.4	across to the Isle of Sky. Although swaves of Highlanders met the wrath of the
1:30.8	British Army, Charlie managed to escape with his life.
1:34.7	His escape was immortalised in the 1884 tune Sky Boat Song, now the theme to the hit TV show Outlander. But what about the man behind that legend? What was he really
1:47.0	like? I am ready to find out if you are.
1:55.0	What do you look for in a man?
1:58.0	Oh, money, of course.
2:00.0	You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you.
2:02.0	I make perfect copies of whatever my fault. You're supposed to rise when an adult speaks to you.
2:02.6	I make perfect copies of whatever my boss means.
2:05.8	I just turning a knob and pushing the button.
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