ALMOST 10 years after it was first commissioned, A House Through Time is back for series six — and David Olusoga is finally taking the format to Scotland.

The BBC Two favourite, which digs into a city’s past through the people who lived at one address over generations, has built up 24 hour-long episodes so far. Previous runs have explored houses in Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, London, Berlin and now Edinburgh.

Olusoga admits he wasn’t convinced the show would ever properly take off when he was filming that first series, worried the “single house” idea might be too narrow and too niche. Instead, it’s become the programme he gets stopped about most — even after appearing on The Celebrity Traitors — with viewers repeatedly asking him when the next series is coming.

This time, the story centres on an 18th-century home on Calton Hill. Olusoga describes Edinburgh as hard to resist: a city shaped by dramatic landscape, built around a castle on an extinct volcano, and famed for dense, vertical living. The featured building is a smaller stone tenement, spread across five floors.

As ever, the human drama comes from the residents. Among the earliest tenants is a man caught up in one of Edinburgh’s strangest trials, linked to a crime so infamous it ended up in street-sold engravings. Another resident joined a volunteer regiment in the tense years after the French revolution.

The series also investigates a Victorian woman whose life proved unusually difficult for the team to pin down — and who, according to Edinburgh police records, turned the address into “a house of ill-fame”.

A House Through Time airs on BBC Two on Thursday 13 August at 9pm.