Celebrating culture and embracing heritage

A new documentary is to be shown today, celebrating Scotland’s diversity. Film-maker Stewart Kyasimire made this heart-felt documentary for his eight-year-old daughter Yasmin as a way of helping her embrace her heritage, celebrate her culture and understand what it means to be Black And Scottish. His interviews with three generations of black Scots cover all walks of life from acting to…

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Bringing a mum closer to her newborn baby

The second episode of a new Scottish series bringing the every day events at a maternity hospital will be shown this week. Technology brings a mum together with her premature son in this second episode of Tiny Lives, filmed in the neonatal unit at University Hospital Wishaw. Unable to cuddle nine-weeks-early Blake because she lost…

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Lost in a landscape from Loch Hope to Sandwood Bay

Viewers will get lost in the landscape in the sixth episode of Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs. The last programme of the series sees Paul Murton travelling hopefully from the shores of Loch Hope to the glorious and lonely expanse of Sandwood Bay on the far north west of Scotland. Along the way he encounters…

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The lochs of the Borders, Fife and the capital

The Loch of the Lowes to Loch Leven feature in the next episode of Paul Murton’s Grand Tour of Scotland’s Lochs. Programme five sees Paul’s loch-hopping journey across Scotland reach the quiet lochs of the Borders, explores the lochs of Scotland’s capital, and crosses over the Forth to discover the forgotten lochs of Fife. From…

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New documentary features Scottish neonatal unit

A new TV series looking at the work of a Scottish hospital’s neonatal unit is coming to our screens. The work of the dedicated staff at University Hospital Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, comes under the spotlight in this three-part documentary series looking at the neonatal unit and the very sick and premature babies who rely on…

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Putting meat into A Play, A Pie and a Pint

The fifth production from BBC Scotland’s televising of A Play, A Pie & A Pint is Meat Market by Chris Gray. It is a comic tale fraught with duplicity and dodgy ethics as three strangers meet in a 24-hour gym late at night to negotiate the sale of a human kidney. Starring Julie Duncanson, Robin…

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David Hayman highlights Scotland’s natural beauty

A new TV series will highlight rural Scotland’s most beautiful, fascinating and surprising places. STV will air Hayman’s Way, a new series in which Scots actor and director David Hayman makes a journey across the country. From secret refugees in the Cairngorms to cliff top castles in East Lothian, David explores the history, people and…

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Toy Plastic Chicken play coming to our TV screens

The fourth in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint series comes to our TV screens on Sunday. Toy Plastic Chicken is a blackly comic exploration of security, degradation and resistance. At a Scottish airport a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. The owner is screened for domestic radicalisation and her…

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Discovering more of Scotland’s beautiful lochs

Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs continue on Monday, September 23, as host Paul Murton heads up the west coast of Scotland. Paul sails along a much-loved route through the Kyles of Bute to Dunoon, discovering a secret history of World War 2 bouncing bombs along the way. From Dunoon and its connections with international singing…

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Behind the scenes on a trio of Scots newspapers

A look into three Scottish newspapers is coming to our screens this week. In The Papers, this new two-part series sees cameras go behind the scenes in the shared newsroom of three Scottish newspapers, one of which is the world’s longest surviving English-language daily title. As journalists face the threat of fresh cuts and redundancies,…

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