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BBC Scotland Investigates

2012

Episode 2: The Money Farmers

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Samantha Poling reveals how people are abusing the farming subsidy system, meeting the young farmers who have lost out and learning if she too can take advantage of the loophole. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2016

Episode 1: Educating Sir Tom

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter visits schools across Scotland to see why poorer children do worse and what can be done to improve results. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2016

Episode 4: How Safe Is My School?

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News

Fiona Walker investigates why a wall at an Edinburgh primary school collapsed during Storm Gertrude, exposing concerns over the safety of such buildings. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2017

Episode 3: Fife's Child Killings: The Untold Story

Duration: 1 hour

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

Lisa Summers reveals new evidence about the deaths of Liam Fee, Madison Horn and Mikaeel Kular in Fife in 2014, despite the involvement of social workers. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2017

Episode 4: The Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Elizabeth Quigley talks to Joy Milne, who discovered she can smell Parkinson's disease, and meets the scientists who are investigating this groundbreaking ability. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2015

Episode 4: Low Pay for Life

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Fiona Walker meets some of the Scots struggling to get by on low pay and hears evidence that many workers will never escape low wages, leaving them trapped in working poverty. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2009

Episode 7: Hash in the Attic

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Reporter Samantha Poling uncovers the explosion of cannabis farming in the last five years from a small 'hobby' to an industry estimated to be worth over 100 million pounds. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2013

Episode 5: Caffeine Nation

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News

Kenneth Macdonald investigates the tactics used to market caffeinated products at the young and gains an insight into how caffeine affects the brain. Show more

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

Cameras follow undecided families to see how they will vote in the upcoming referendum. Undecided Jessica has an important chat with her mother who intends to vote yes. Show more

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The Money Farmers

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel

Samantha Poling reveals how millions of pounds of public money are being paid out to businessmen and millionaire farmers in an abuse of the farming subsidy system. Show more

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BBC Scotland Investigates

2009

Home Is Where the Hurt Is

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

BBC Scotland Investigates whether more children should be taken away from their families and into care, and reporter Samantha Poling goes on a journey through the care system. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2011

Episode 5: Fair Game? Scotland's Sporting Estates

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

David Miller investigates the killings of rare, protected birds in the Scottish countryside and a possible connection to the country's Sporting Estates. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2010

Episode 12: Magic or Medicine - Homeopathy and the NHS

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Investigating how homeopathy has penetrated the heart of the NHS and whether prescribing homeopathic preparations for serious conditions could be dangerous for patients. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2013

Episode 4: Scotland's Lost Babies

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Mark Daly investigates the Edinburgh baby ashes scandal, in which grieving parents were denied their babies remains which were then buried without their knowledge. Show more

BBC Scotland Investigates

2012

Episode 12: How Safe Is Your Hospital?

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Fiona Walker uncovers new evidence about what is going wrong in our hospitals, and asks whether we can trust the NHS to do the right thing when mistakes are made. Show more