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Walking Through History audio walks, supported by The Open University, and radio programmes return this year. Walking Through History, with presenter Neil Oliver, will tackle a different location and era each week – in tandem with the television series. First up is Dunkeld and the battle Of 1689, which was to prove pivotal to the path Scotland was to take.

Successive weeks will feature: Stirling, and how public discontent about the Union was exploited by the Jacobites, leading to the 1715 rebellion; the Glasgow tobacco lords and the impact the money they brought into Glasgow had on the city; Glendale on Skye – the tale of the crofters who fought back, and how their actions led to land reform, changing Highland history; and Dundee, how the disappearance of the jute industry changed the city.

In The Footsteps – the biographical series will focus on characters highlighted in the television series. In the first episode, Richard Holloway talks about the convenanting preacher Alexander Peden, while the following week Eddi Reader looks at the life of Flora MacDonald.

In a special two-parter, comedian and broadcaster Susan Morrison takes an offbeat journey into very particular elements of women's history, starting with Ladies Of Pleasure and a 1770s guide to the prostitutes of Edinburgh's Old Town, and re-dressing the balance with How To Be A Respectable Woman, a social history of being a "good" or "bad" woman – and keeping house – in 20th Century Scotland.

Back From The Brink – a one-off documentary on the fight to stop the Kvaerner shipyard in Glasgow, presented by journalist Russell Walker.