Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland Autumn 2007
TV programmes A-C
10 Things You Didn't Know About Earthquakes
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four
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Geologist Iain Stewart takes viewers on a tour of the sites of the world's most devastating earthquakes.
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From Helike in Greece to Kobe in Japan and from mega quakes to moon quakes, 10 Things You Didn't Know About Earthquakes discovers how these often catastrophic events are behind everything from the rise and fall of civilisations to changes in religious belief, architecture and the global economy.
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The programme also looks at the science of earthquake prediction and what the future holds in store for earthquake prone cities like Tokyo and Istanbul.
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Front Desk
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The Adventure Show
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland
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From under the water of Scapa Flow with the Orkney Triathlon, to the top of
Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, and its annual race, The Adventure Show
covers all the action – and much more besides.
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Presented by Dougie Vipond, with able assistance from technical guru Duncan
McCallum, the series is at the heart of Scotland's adventure action – be it the World
Cup Mountain Bike Championships at Fort William, windsurfing at the Tiree Wave
Classic, or celebrating the 40th anniversary of the original Mountain Marathon in
the Scottish Borders.
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The programme takes time out to explore Scotland's wild places with Britain's best-known hill walker, Cameron McNeish, while resident gear expert Chris Townsend makes
viewers' money go further with his in-depth reviews. The Adventure Show also gets
up close and personal with the best of the nation's wildlife.
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JG2
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Air Bhà rr Nan Tonn (On The Crest Of The Waves)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba
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Examining lifestyles, pastimes and events connected with the sea, Air Bhà rr
Nan Tonn (On The Crest Of The Waves) comes from a different location around Scotland each week.
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Taking a look at the changing relationship between coastal communities and the sea, the
six-part series explores all the ways in which people "mess about on the water" as well as
looking at the new and the old ways in which the sea contributes to the economy.
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Presented by Iain MacInnes and Shona MacLellan, among the ports-of-call for this new
series are Shetland, Ballycastle, Arbroath and Southampton. Air Bhà rr Nan Tonn is a
MNE TV production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland.
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Gaelic with English subtitles.
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JW4
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Alladale
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland
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This observational documentary series follows estate owner Paul Lister as he aims to turn the clock back and re-wild the Highlands to create Europe's first-ever Wilderness Game Reserve. His team at Alladale intends to bring back native Caledonian pine, and, more controversially, the landscape of 500 years ago – alive with wild boar, moose, lynx, wolves and bears.
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HM
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Britten's Piano Concerto
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland
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Complementing Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland's celebrations at Pacific Quay, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and
Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov open the orchestra's 2007/2008 concert series at City Halls, its home in
Glasgow's Merchant City, on the evening of Thursday 20 September.
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Scottish pianist Steven Osborne performs Benjamin Britten's colourful piano concerto, and the second half
of the evening's entertainment – which will be televised live on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland – features one of the most
popular works in the repertoire, Gustav Holst's The Planets.
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Founded in 1935, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra appears in Britain's most prestigious events like
the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms and Edinburgh International Festival, and plays in venues all over Scotland. It has performed
in the great cultural centres of Europe, and, in recent years, has toured in China, the USA and South
America. The majority of its performances are broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio and Television.
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SD3
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Blair Atholl Horse Trials
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland
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The Blair Atholl Horse Trials is an annual three-day event which provides a comprehensive
test of all-round ability for horse and rider, against the spectacular backdrop of Blair Atholl
Castle and the beautiful Perthshire hills.
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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland will, once again, present highlights of the three disciplines – dressage,
cross country and show jumping – which, over one weekend in August, attract more than
40,000 spectators and 1,000 horses and ponies.
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HRH The Princess Royal attended the final day of the this year's trials, and Olympic Gold
Medallist Rhona Martin set the two-legged runners off on the Blair Castle Cross Country
Challenge. The weekend also included the European Young Rider Eventing Championships
and the Bruadar Country Fair.
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JG2
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Boys Beyond Bars
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland
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Earlier this year, Boys Behind Bars took a look behind the scenes at the lives of several young men in Polmont Young Offenders Institute. Their stories highlighted the fear and violence in their lives, their struggle to find a way of coping and their hopes for a better future after ending up behind bars at such a young age.
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This one-off documentary catches up with the boys who have been liberated and follows them outside prison. Charting their lives on the outside, the documentary, made by Friel Kean Films, sees if any of them have managed to really change their ways, or whether old habits die hard.
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Can any of the boys break the mould? Or are they all still caught up in an endless cycle of crime and punishment?
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HM
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Caledonian Dreaming
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four
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In the early Eighties a small label named Postcard Records released a series of singles emblazoned with the legend "The Sound Of Young Scotland". Postcard Records went on to champion artists including Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and Altered Images – all of whom trail blazed a trail for homemade Scottish Pop.
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Caledonian Dreaming follows the recent history of Scottish pop from the blue-eyed Soul era with the likes of Wet Wet Wet, Deacon Blue and Del Amitri, to the bizarre such as The Jesus And Mary Chain; the very Scottish, including Runrig and the Proclaimers; to the more critically respected bands such as Teenage Fanclub, Travis and Belle And Sebastian. Just why has Scotland produced so many great bands and what do they say about our wee country?
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JW4
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Carluccio And The Renaissance Cookbook (working title)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two
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Private chef to Pope Pius V, Bartolomeo Scappi's cookbook Opera is credited with laying the foundations of modern Italian cuisine.
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Beautifully illustrated, Opera is the most expensive cookery book in the world, which boasts over 1,000 recipes and demonstrates the high point of Renaissance cookery.
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Nearly 500 years after its publication, award-winning food writer and presenter Antonio Carluccio travels to Italy to tell the fascinating story of the world's first celebrity chef.
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Front Desk
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Carrie And David's Popshop
CBeebies
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Talented music duo Carrie and David Grant (Fame Academy) are joined by a puppet called Riff the dog in this new, 30-part CBeebies series which uses music to solve problems.
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Customers come to Carrie And David's Popshop to ask the team for a song to help solve a situation or deal with a dilemma. With the audience's help at every stage, Carrie and David create a brand-new song for every episode, ultimately performing it in their "zone" at the end of each show.
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Each programme features a specially filmed music video showing the customer transported into an imaginative and often humorous solution.
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Carrie And David's Popshop is about viewers joining in and getting involved, with everybody feeling as though they are creating something great. All songs have been written by Carrie and David and are produced by Steve Welton-Jaimes. The customers are played by child actors.
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Front Desk
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Castle In The Country
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two
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From stunning locations in the heart of Britain's countryside, John Craven and Gloria Hunniford delve into the life of two beautiful, historic houses.
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This time around, popular daytime series Castle In The Country comes from Floors Castle, in Kelso, and Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire. Â鶹ԼÅÄ to the Dukes of Roxburghe since 1721, Floors Castle is the programme's gateway to the Scottish Borders – a romantic castle with its roofscape of turrets, pinnacles and cupolas.
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The second half of the series comes from the heart of Gloucestershire at the historic Berkeley castle. Â鶹ԼÅÄ to the Berkeley family for almost 900 years, the castle is the oldest building in the country to be inhabited by the same family who built it.
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Providing expert opinion on antiques will be Lars Tharp, Paul Atterbury and Rupert Maas, while chefs Rachel Allen and Matt Tebbutt tempt taste buds. Christine Bleakley takes on the role of roving reporter.
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Front Desk
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Class Of 2012 (working title)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland
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This half-hour documentary spotlights some of Scotland's most promising young athletes who have their sights set on taking part in the 2012 Olympics.
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For many, competing in the Olympics on home turf will be the chance of a lifetime. These stars of the future have all received lottery funding to train and hopefully turn their dreams into reality. From mountain biking to fencing, Tae Kwon Do to disability athletics, Class Of 2012 will profile a selection of these young talents and ask what it takes, both mentally and physically, to be an Olympic standard athlete.
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Drawing on the testaments from Scotland's previous Olympic heroes, the programme discovers the thoughts of Scottish Olympians – past, present and future.
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JG2
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Comedy Connections
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One
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The critically acclaimed Comedy Connections returns with another set of behind-the-screens stories from television's funniest programmes.
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This sixth series will continue to trace the comic genealogy of some of the biggest hits in sitcom history.
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Each week, the inside story of some of British comedy's most successful shows will be told by the insiders. Hearing from the writers, producers, directors and actors gives us unrestricted access to the friendships, happy accidents, tensions and triumphs involved in making memorable comedy.
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The new series of Comedy Connections will, once again, create a winning mixture of insight, laughs and nostalgia from its revealing interviews, vintage archive clips and connecting comedy graphics.
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JW4
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The Cult Of...
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four
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Having revealed the stories behind six of British TV's best-loved science fiction series in 2006, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Four's TV archaeology series, The Cult Of..., turns its attention to that time-honoured television staple, the Sunday-night drama.
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Using exclusive interviews and archive footage to pay tribute to All Creatures Great And Small, Bergerac, Hamish Macbeth, The Onedin Line, Howards' Way, Poldark, The Brothers and Shoestring, each of the eight programmes unearths the history and anecdote lurking behind the shows' formidable reputations. Cast, crew and viewers of the original series seek to explain the lasting appeal of their work.
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Narrated by Meera Syal, The Cult Of... interviewees – who look back to a time when they had no idea they were involved in making a cult series – include Christopher Timothy, Peter Davison, Robert Hardy, John Nettles, Liza Goddard, Jill Gascoine, Jane Seymour, Stephen Yardley, Jan Harvey, Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Colin Baker, Kate O'Mara and Trevor Eve.
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Front Desk
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The Culture Show
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two
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The Culture Show is Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two's weekly guide to the most dynamic, exciting and unusual events in the UK's cultural life. Presented by Lauren Laverne, the show constantly aims to be distinctive in its tone, breaking the mould of conventional arts programming. Funny, informative, wry and radical the programme is always looking for new and unexpected ways to present the arts to its audience.
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From the movies to classical music, ballet dancers to hip hop, The Culture Show rules (almost) nothing out in its coverage of what makes up the country's modern cultural life. The show draws on a team of expert regulars, including Mark Kermode providing his breakdown of the week's movie releases, as well as a weekly exclusive performance from acts such as The Aliens, Manic Street Preachers and Regina Spektor.
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The Culture Show is also unique in the way it covers the whole country's cultural activity. The weekly show is a "dual site" production, meaning alternating shows come from London and Glasgow based teams.
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Front Desk
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