Film & TV
James Bond’s home could be yours for £2.2million
The cost of buying James Bond’s fictional Skyfall Lodge in Glencoe has been revealed. Leading property finance specialist, One77 Mortgages, has looked at the position buyers would have to find themselves in to secure a purchase on some of our best loved TV and film homes. Based on the average deposit of 10% of property…
Read MoreThe power of the sea and how people use it
The last of a three-part TV documentary series explores how people harness the tide for different purposes. Harnessing the Tide joins a swimming challenge that uses the tide as a catapult, and explores tidal power technology on Orkney. On the beautiful island of Bernera, in the Outer Hebrides, an art installation bell harnesses the tide’s…
Read MoreStep back in time to the 1990s with BBC Scotland
New channel BBC Scotland is offering up some comedy classics with a time-travelling trawl back to the 90s for Saturday nights. On Saturday, May 18, the 1990s will ride over the hill and zoom onto the screen with the first episodes of Your Cheatin’ Heart and The High Life with Sebastian and Steve back where…
Read MoreThe judges head east to find Home of the Year
The sixth edition in the search for Scotland’s Home Of The Year takes the judging team to the east. On Wednesday, the BBC Scotland show heads to a renovated B-listed farmhouse just outside North Berwick. The owners wanted to mix the centuries-old charm of the original building with some modern touches, mixing traditional décor with…
Read MoreThe rise and sad fall of Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson
For years, Scotsman Jocky Wilson was one of the leading darts players in the world. BBC Scotland is to feature the troubled life of the Kirkcaldy-raised man in a new documentary, who died in 2012. Featuring rare archive footage and told in Jocky’s own words, this is the bittersweet story of the rise and fall…
Read MorePeter Mullan’s Orphans find a new ‘home’
Scottish movie classic Orphans – released 20 years ago this month – is being celebrated by BBC Scotland. The recently launched channel is screening the film, directed by Peter Mullan and hailed internationally as a darkly comic masterpiece, on Saturday 11 May. Preceding the movie screening will be a specially commissioned new documentary Orphans Reunited,…
Read MoreThe story of an iconic Scottish business – Singer
The Singer sewing machine, international icon and a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, helped boost Scottish business and create the town of Clydebank. Over a century it employed tens of thousands of Bankies before its demise nearly 40 years ago. The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank, tells the story of those workers: how their lives…
Read MoreDiver survived 35 minutes – on 6 minutes of air
This compelling true story of a diver trapped on the bottom of the North Sea is to be shown on TV. Chris Lemons’ body amazingly was able to survive for 35 minutes on a six-minute emergency air tank. At the time of the incident Chris was relatively new to saturation diving. It was an exciting…
Read MoreStunning views of Scottish industry from the sky
The nation’s working lives are put in focus but from a different angle, in Scotland from the Sky. In this third and final episode of the series, Jamie Crawford uses remarkable aerial images to find out how the Scots have harnessed precious natural resources to power industry. He combines old aerial photographs with present-day drone…
Read MoreBritain to learn of Scotland’s worst sea tragedy
A documentary marking a century since the greatest sea tragedy ever to befall the west coast of Scotland is to be shown on national TV next week. The Iolaire was carrying sailors who had fought in the First World War back to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides on Hogmany, 1918. She departed…
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