Episode 5
Writer Damian Barr is at Hamilton Town House with guests Kate Mosse, Kirsty Wark and Graeme Macrae Burnet.
This episode sees Damian and guests delve into the past, from 16th-century France to the Highlands in 1869 and a house full of secrets in 20th-century Galloway, as they discuss fact and fiction and the history they explore in their novels.
There is poetry from Andrés Nicolás Ordorica, and this week's book group tell Damian what they thought of Kate Mosse's The Burning Chambers.
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