TV documentary will mark 150 years of Mackintosh

A new documentary marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s birth will show how he was never appreciated in Scotland during his lifetime. The great architect’s legacy features at the heart of the new BBC Two Scotland programme, in which celebrated artist and fellow Glaswegian, Lachlan Goudie, a great lover of Mackintosh and aficionado…

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Short film festival is coming to Inverness

Short films are to be celebrated at this year’s prestigious XpoNorth event. Scotland’s leading creative industries festival, XpoNorth, invited filmmakers from the Highlands and Islands and beyond, to submit short films of any genre and resulted in over 2000 submissions hailing from the Outer Hebrides to Beverly Hills. Over 50 films will screen during the…

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How eight days killed the dreams of a nation

Forty years ago, Scotland was a country that couldn’t wait for football’s World Cup to start. The Scots were the only nation from the British isles which had qualified for the finals in Argentina, and manager Ally MacLeod seemed incredibly optimistic about the nation’s chances in South America. In a group with Peru, Iran, Scotland…

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Scots playwright Rona Munro has a unique honour

Since the early 1980s, Rona Munro has been a name to watch on the Scottish arts scene. An accomplished playwright, who has also had her worked performed on radio and television, the Aberdeenshire writer is noted for her acclaimed trilogy The James Plays, for the National Theatre of Scotland, and has collected numerous awards along…

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A celebration of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A new documentary will reveal life in and around Scotland Street School, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s last major commission in Glasgow. Created by Scottish artist and filmmaker Margaret Moore, Scotland Street School Remembers will open on 7 June at Scotland Street School Museum, marking the 150thanniversary of the world-renowned architect’s birth. The School Board of Glasgow…

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New film should inspire more people onto our hills

Veteran actress Sheila Hancock is leading the way in a new film which is it hoped will get people onto Scotland’s hills. She stars in a new film about an octogenarian tackling one of Scotland’s most iconic mountains. And it’s hoped Sheila will inspire visitors to pull on their hiking boots, say VisitScotland, as new…

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How one Scottish town floored the world

Scotland’s influence on the world is well known through the likes of John Logie Baird, John Loudon McAdam, Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Fleming. With so many famous individuals, it’s sometimes easy to forget that an entire Scottish town had a dramatic effect of its own. BBC Two Scotland is screening a documentary this Monday,…

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TV weather report was ship-shape thanks to Carol

BBC Breakfast’s weather forecaster Carol Kirkwood returned home north of the border for live reports this morning. Carol, originally from Morar in Inverness-shire, brought the nation their weather reports from the decks of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Leith. She was joined by former Royal Yachtsmen, or ‘Yotties’, to raise celebratory flags ahead of the…

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See Scotland as you’ve never viewed it before

Television viewers have the chance to see Scotland as they’ve never seen it before. In an exhilarating mix of aviation adventure and historical detective work, presenter James Crawford takes to the skies to explore Scotland’s cities, coasts and countryside from the air. Using rare archive from Scotland’s National Collection of Aerial Photography and stunning graphics,…

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A rare chance to see TV time capsule’s contents

A famous time capsule which was buried on TV then accidentally dug up after 19 years, is coming to Scotland. When the Blue Peter Millennium Time Capsule was accidentally dug up by construction workers 33 years earlier than planned it made headline news. Now, as part of Blue Peter’s 60th birthday year, the contents of…

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