Claire Mitchell KC & Zoe Venditozzi (17:00 BST)

Creators of the Witches of Scotland campaign call for a public apology for witches

As a woman, if you lived in Scotland in the 1500s, there was a very good chance that you, or someone you knew, would be tried as a witch. Witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years, with at least 4,000 accused, and with many women's fates sealed by a grizzly execution of strangulation, followed by burning in this legally sanctioned victimisation.

With testimony from a small army of experts, pen portraits of the women accused, trial transcripts, witness accounts and legal documents, How to Kill A Witch forms a rich and moving patchwork of tragic stories, revealing exactly why the Patriarchy went to such extraordinary lengths to silence women.

Helping us comprehend the underlying reasons for this terrible injustice, Claire Mitchell, KC, and writer Zoe Venditozzi have delved deeply into just why the trials exploded in Scotland to such a degree and raise the serious question - could it ever happen again?

In conversation with Sheena McDonald

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