The series features 10 episodes, each focusing on a specific area, type of building or aspect of Glasgow’s heritage, not only from an architectural history point of view, but also from the perspective of the community. Podcast host Niall Murphy, director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT), is joined by special guests for each episode, who share their personal experiences, thoughts, knowledge and memories.

Niall Murphy is well known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of Glasgow’s architectural history and will be familiar to many through his popular #MomentsofBeauty in #Glasgow tweets. This daily glance at often overlooked aspects of Glasgow’s historic built environment began in lockdown and has continued since, amassing quite a following in the process.

GCHT hopes the informal yet informative style of the podcast will engage a wide range of listeners and show Glasgow through a variety of different lenses. Listeners will have the chance to learn about the Moving Image Archive at Kelvin Hall with Dr Emily Munro, the experience of showpeople of Glasgow and how this inspired Dr Mitch Miller to create the Dialectorgram, and the Women Make History Heritage Walks which have been run by Glasgow Women’s Library since 2007.

Other topics include housing struggles in Glasgow with Joey Simons from the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive, paranormal investigations in the City, a virtual walk around some of Glasgow’s parks and green spaces as well as chats with photographer Chris Leslie, Sorcha Dallas from The Alasdair Gray Archive.

In the final episode, the tables will be turned on Niall and Lost Glasgow’s Norry Wilson will be finding out what he thinks about Glasgow’s built environment. There’s also an episode recorded in front of a live audience at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Katharine Neil, heritage officer at GCHT, said: “Series 1 of the podcast was hugely popular with over 6000 downloads from people across 50 different countries. We’re hoping to build upon that popularity in this series and we’re really excited to hear from our wide range of guests about Glasgow’s historic built environment, how it has changed over time and the impact that has had on its communities.”

The podcast will be available to listen to for free from Friday 17th March 2023, on iTunes, Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Podcast Addict, Deezer, Breaker, Player FM, Listen Notes and The Podcast Index. Episodes will be released weekly.

A podcast consultancy company, Inner Ear, took care of all the technical and digital aspects of the process and episodes were recorded between August 2022 and March 2023.

GCHT has said it is grateful to the National Trust for Scotland for their generous sponsorship of the podcast and to Tunnock’s for their generous donation to the project.