Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temperamental actors, Cora Bissett is no stranger to theatrical Scottish swearing. So who better to present a celebration of Caledonian cursing? This documentary sees Cora sing, swear and scrutinise why Scotland swears so well. Cora begins with the first hurdle – how does one discuss swear words on the BBC? Aunty Beeb is the institution that has been historically priggish about language - always bleeping words and apologising for those that slipped through. So Cora runs a list past BBC Scotland’s head of editorial standards to see what she can get away with.
The programme shows Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie's fascination with music from an early age, list...
Rolling moors and highlands. Bluebells and heather. Cool lochs and refreshing streams. Tidy villages...
Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...
Scotland is a country of three distinct regions—the highlands, the islands, and the lowlands. These ...
Neil Oliver and Tony Pollard set out to solve one of the biggest puzzles in battlefield archaeology....
Dame Mary Berry travels to her mother’s homeland of Scotland, where she’s joined by friends Andy Mur...
Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 10...
An award-winning wordless documentary that explores the architecture of the then new St. Peter's Sem...
Redemption: The James Pearson Story tells the controversial story of one of the World's best trad cl...
Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...
Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the m...
In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on ...
In 1975, The Bay City Rollers were on the brink of global superstardom. The most successful chart ac...
Eilish McColgan is running in the footsteps of her mother, Liz. This documentary shares their extrao...
Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not...
Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...
Best-selling author Graeme Armstrong reveals his passion for rave, meeting some of the superstar DJs...
In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their...
Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associat...