Film & TV
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…
Read MoreToy 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…
Read MoreDiscovering 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…
Read MoreBehind 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,…
Read MoreThree of The Sopranos stars are coming to Scotland
Stars of one of the most iconic TV shows of all time are coming to Scotland. Iconic mob drama The Sopranos stars Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti), Steven Schirripa (Bobby ‘Bacala’) and Vincent Pastore (‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero) are to tour the UK in May 2020. To mark 20 years of The Sopranos, three of the biggest…
Read MoreWhen An Elderly Widow Takes to Vulgarity…
A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity is the third of six A Play A Pie & A Pint plays being shown on the BBC Scotland channel. Starring Anne Kidd and Craig McLean, this play depicts a recently widowed elderly lady, Annabelle, who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Jim, a young lad at her husband’s…
Read MoreFollow in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Our armchair tour of the nation’s lochs continues on Monday night. Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs reaches its third episode on Monday, September 16, as host Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie exploring the lesser-known lochs along the west coast of Scotland. Landing at Glenuig, he makes his way inland to…
Read MoreA Mystical Journey around Scotland’s lochs
The armchair tour of Scotland’s lochs is continuing on our TV screens. Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs has set sail with presenter Paul Murton for a new six-part series, which began on Monday, 2 September. Programme Two of the series covers Loch Ussie to the Gizzen Brigg, and is titled A Mystical Journey. It starts…
Read MoreA Play, A Pie and a Pint continues on our TV screens
The second in the famous A Play, A Pie & A Pint theatre project series is coming to our TV screens. Ring Road, written by and starring Anita Vettesse, sees her play Lisa, who is 40, and edging towards a midlife crisis. She makes an indecent proposal to her brother in-law (played by Gavin Jon…
Read MoreNew TV series takes viewers on a Poverty Safari
Activist and prize-winning author Darren McGarvey takes a tour of a Scotland he knows only too well in this new six-part series. Known to many as the rapper Loki, his book Poverty Safari – chronicling his childhood and teen years in Pollok in Glasgow and the issues he saw around him – won the Orwell…
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