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Watching Ourselves: 60 Years of TV in Scotland

Episode 1: Breaking Stories

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland

Available for 6 months

Celebrating 60 years of television in Scotland, a look at Scotland's history of great television journalism. From reporter Fyfe Robertson's stylish reports in a trilby on horseback for Tonight, to Duncan Campbell's 1985 Secret Society episode - The Zircon Affair - which landed the BBC in trouble with the government.

Plus Kirsty Wark's Thatcher interview, coverage of the trio of tragedies that struck Scotland: Lockerbie, Piper Alpha and Dunblane, and more recently the Panorama investigation Britain's Homecare Scandal. Show less

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