Crowdie And Cream/Gruth is Uachdar

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Crowdie and Cream: Episode 1

Episode 1

Crowdie and Cream

BBC Four - Crowdie and Cream, Episode 1

Finlay and his family move to Scarista and an engagement party brings joy and sorrow.

Drama series based on Finlay J MacDonald's account of life in the Scottish Hebrides in the 1930s. Finlay and his family move to Scarista. An engagement party brings joy and sorrow.

Tha Fionnlagh ceithir bliadhna a dh'aois agus chan eil cuisean a'dol leis anns na Hearadh far am bheil e fuireach comhla ri pharantan . Se canan fuadan a th'aca anns a sgoil agus ged a tha partaidh a'dol anns a bhaile tha e ro og airson a dhol ann. Ach eil eisin a'dol a' leigeal le sin maill a chuir air?

The late Finlay J Macdonald's popular classic trilogy comes to television. Gruth is Uachdar is a timeless rite-of-passage story about a young boy, Finlay, and his family's efforts to make a home in one of the most magnificent, and uncompromising, landscapes in Europe. The high mountains and white shell-sand beaches of Harris form a breathtaking natural setting for this bitter-sweet tale of boyhood. It is 1930. Finlay, four years old, nearly burns down his family's half-built new home.

As the first episode unfolds, Finlay hears the history of the family, evicted during the Clearances. Too young to attend an engagement party in the new village, Finlay decides to evade his babysitter.

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Three-part drama based on Finlay J MacDonald's account of life in 1930s Scottish Hebrides.

1/3. Drama based on Finlay J MacDonald 's trilogy about childhood, family, home and friendship. The story begins in 1930 with Finlay's family moving into a two-room tin house.

Tweed

Tweed: Episode 1: Trouble Looms

Episode 1: Trouble Looms

Trouble Looms

BBC Four - Tweed, Trouble Looms

The islanders take steps to protect their heritage.

The islanders take steps to protect their heritage - an ethnic British cloth, as much part of island culture as the gaelic language - but are they too late?

Harris Tweed is the most iconic of all tweeds, woven by hand at home, by an islander in the Outer Hebrides, and adored for decades the world over. Or it was. As our tweed saga begins, the world has forgotten Harris Tweed and the island industry is in terminal decline. Savile Row tailor Patrick Grant heads north from Mayfair in search of new supplies of the only cloth that will satisfy his fanatical tweed customers, and discovers that all is not well - and the supply may be about to end.

A Yorkshire textile baron has stepped in to save Harris tweed - or has he? Brian Haggas offers weavers and mill workers constant work, but plans to reduce the traditional eight thousand patterns to just four - and to dominate the world market in Harris tweed jackets. 

The majority of the hundred and twenty weavers still producing tweed respond to the challenge and produce thousands of metres of fabric. But then disaster strikes - the jackets aren't selling and the workforce are laid off. 

The islanders take steps to protect their heritage - a beautiful, sustainable and ethnic British cloth, as much part of island culture as the gaelic language - but are they too late?

Series which looks at the Harris Tweed industry

Harris Tweed is the most iconic of all tweeds, woven by hand, and adored for decades the world over. Or it was. This series looks at the island industry which is in terminal decline

Tweed Yarns

1/3. Trouble Looms. Examining the rise in popularity of Harris Tweed, beginning with how an English entrepreneur hoped to revolutionise the way the fabric was made and concentrate on the demands from overseas. Shown last Tuesday

Balmoral

13/09/2009

BBC Four - Balmoral

Documentary telling the story of Balmoral, the royal family's most private residence.

Documentary telling the story of Balmoral, the royal family's most private residence, and how the royal family has played a role in shaping modern Scotland and vice versa.

Documentary telling the story of Balmoral, the royal family's most private residence. For over 150 years this Scottish castle has been home to royal traditions of picnics, stag hunting and kilts. From prime ministers to Princess Diana, life at this tartan-bound holiday home has not appealed to everyone. 

But there is another story of Balmoral, of how the royal family has played a role in shaping modern Scotland and how Scotland has shaped the royal family. Queen Victoria's adoption of Highland symbols, from tartan to bagpipes, helped create a new image for Scotland. Her values, too, helped strengthen the union between Scotland and England. Ever since, Balmoral has been a place that reflects the very essence of the royal family.

New. BBC4's This Is Scotland strand continues with this documentary examining the history of Balmoral Castle, which has been the royal family's most private residence for more than years. The programme examines the role played by the monarchy in shaping modern Scotland. See panel. 
Repeated Wednesday at 12.30am

Spiral

There's no one idea of justice. Laure Berthaud and her team of detectives face the brutal world of organised crime, and none will remain unscathed. Dark, unsettling French drama.

Spiral: Series 2: Gangs of Paris

Spiral: Series 2: Gangs of Paris: Episode 1

Series 2: Gangs of Paris

BBC Four - Spiral, Series 2: Gangs of Paris, Episode 1

A charred corpse leads Berthaud's police team to the door of lawyer Josephine Karlsson.

French crime thriller series. A charred corpse found in a car boot leads Berthaud's police team and the prosecutors Roban and Clement to shady lawyer Josephine Karlsson's door.

When a charred corpse is found in the boot of a car in the suburbs, Berthaud's police team are called to the scene along with the prosecutors Roban and Clement. So begins an investigation which forces the team into the broken, gang-ruled suburbs of Paris, and once more to the door of shady lawyer Josephine Karlsson.

The burned body of a man is found in the  boot of a car on a housing estate.

Inspector Berthaud and the team investigate a charred corpse found locked in the boot of a car, amongst the broken, gang-ruled suburbs of Paris.

New series. 1/8; series two. French detective drama. The police and prosecutors become embroiled in Paris's gang culture as they investigate a shady lawyer following the discovery of a charred body in the boot of a car. 
Starring Gregory Fitoussi. See panel. 
Repeated on Friday at 11.40pm

Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter

Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter: Episode 1

BBC Four - Jonathan Meades: Off Kilter, Episode 1

Architecture critic Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland.

Architecture critic Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland. He celebrates Aberdeen, the granite city full of 'brand new' 300-year-old buildings.

Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons. 

Architecture critic Meades celebrates Aberdeen, the granite city full of 'brand new' 300-year-old buildings.

Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland

Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons

Jonathan Meades - Off Kilter

1/3. The writer embarks on a tour of Scotland, inspired by a fascination with the country's unusually named towns. 
Shown last Wednesday

The Crow Road

A search for answers, a search for self. Adaptation for TV of Iain Banks's powerful novel.

A search for answers, a search for self. Prentice grapples with family mysteries and unrequited love. Iain Banks's powerful, poignant story, starring Joe McFadden and Peter Capaldi.

The Crow Road: Original

The Crow Road: Original: Episode 1: Prentice

Episode 1: Prentice

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Prentice

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Student Prentice McHoan embarks on a complex journey through his family history.

Adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel. Student Prentice McHoan carries out his late grandmother's request to find out what happened to his Uncle Rory.

Student Prentice McHoan carries out his recently deceased grandmother's request to find out what happened to his Uncle Rory, who disappeared seven years before. After meeting Rory's girlfriend Janice, Prentice discovers he had been working on a murder mystery novel called The Crow Road. Janice gives Prentice the computer discs containing the novel. Prentice starts to search for Rory with the help of his friend Ashley.

Adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel.

Four-part adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel.

1/4. Drama centring on the struggles of a man trying to find the answers to life's great mysteries. Stars Joseph McFadden. Shown last Wednesday

Rory Bremner and the Fighting Scots

05/09/2009

BBC Four - Rory Bremner and the Fighting Scots

Rory Bremner asks if the Scottish soldier's loyalty to Queen and country is running out?

Rory Bremner sets out to discover why rebel clansmen became loyal servants of the military establishment. Is the Scottish soldier's loyalty to Queen and country running out?

The Scots have a reputation as brave, ferocious warriors. Despite a troubled history with England, history shows that more of Scotland's young men sign up to fight for the crown than anywhere else in Britain. 

Rory Bremner, whose own father and great grandfather were distinguished Scottish soldiers, sets out to discover why rebel clansmen became loyal servants of the military establishment. 

His story takes him to Culloden, Crimea and northern France. As the sound of the pipes floats over Scottish military camps in Afghanistan he asks if, after 250 years, the Scottish soldier's loyalty to Queen and country is running out?

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