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Ian Rankin Investigates: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, tracing Robert Louis Stevenson's story back to event...

Inside the Mind of Robert Burns

Writer Alan Bissett explores the complex brain of Robert Burns - a poetic genius with contradictory attitudes to women, politics and slavery.

Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation | 3: Hugh Macdiarmid

Andrew Marr looks into the life of poet Hugh MacDiarmid, who reinvented Scots as a language f...

Beyond Burns

Scots Makar Jackie Kay looks at the lives of some of the extraordinary, and often overlooked, poets that Scotland has produced and how they have told, and conti...

In Search of Sir Walter Scott

To mark the 250th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott's birth, author Damian Barr goes in search of the legacy of one of Scotland's great historica...

A Poet's Guide to Britain | 3: George Mackay Brown

Owen Sheers explores poetry set in the British landscape. He looks at George Mackay Brown's Hamnavoe and visits his home t...

In The Dark | Domestic Magic

Family secrets and a murderous being emerge from the shadowy places of a couple’s new home, proving that just because you inherit something does...

Intermediate English: Poetry

Students get a chance to question, interpret and evaluate poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Liz Lochhead.

Episode 1 | Blethering Scots

Ten well-known personalities share their favourite Scots word and celebrate the warmth, wit and grit of the Scots language. Written by Sanjeev K...

Episode 2 | Blethering Scots

Ten more well-known Scottish personalities share their favourite Scots words. Comedian Susan Calman is a wee 'besom', while Elaine C Smith has s...

Rebel Tongue

Alistair Heather sets out on a mission to reclaim the Scots language. For years, Scotland’s ancient tongue was ignored or mocked. Now, one and a half million pe...

1: The Golden Age | The Mother Tongue

First of 3 documentaries tracing the history of the Scots tongue from its origins through to its heyday as the language of court, lite...

2: A Very Corrupt Dialect | The Mother Tongue

Billy KAY examines the roots of prejudice against Lowland Scots from the 1700s onwards in interviews with academics and native ...

3: Pan Loaf and Patter | The Mother Tongue

The final programme in the series in which Billy KAY traces the development of the Scots language.

Making Scotland's Landscape

Professor Iain Stewart reveals how Scotland's unique landscape was shaped. Here, he uncovers the devastating impact of mankind and the climate on...

Scotland From the Sky

Jamie Crawford combines old aerial photographs with present-day drone and helicopter footage to uncover an amazing array of tales, from Shetland to Str...

Perth | TOWN with Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane visits Perth, a royal burgh, gateway to the Scottish highlands and a town packed with history.

Highlands - Scotland's Wile Heart

Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. It is spring, the most unpredictable of all seasons in the Ca...

The Mountain

Cairngorm is at the heart of Scotland's greatest winter wilderness. As the first storms of the winter blow in, the ski patrol is working hard to get the resort ...

Tales From the National Parks

In Tyndrum gold fever has gripped the village's residents, but will the Loch Lomond Park Authority give permission for Scotland's first gold mine?

Landward

Dougie's visiting Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms to see how this vast landscape is regenerating for the future. Meanwhile, Cammy sets out to meet some inspiring...

Nature's Microworlds

Steve Backshall shows how the two contrasting landscapes of open moor and Caledonian forest are both crucially important to the Highlands' wild inhabita...

The Battle for Scotland's Countryside

David Hayman presents a personal view of the battle for access to Scotland's countryside, revealing how this conflict has shaped the ph...

A History of Scotland

At the dawn of the first millennia, there was no Scotland or England. Neil Oliver reveals how the Gaelic Scottish Kingdom - Alba - was born.

In Search of Scotland

Exploring Scotland's dramatic history, Dr Fiona Watson begins with our mysterious Neolithic ancestors.

A Scottish Soldier: A Lost Diary of WWI

Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Arthur Roberts - one of thousands of black soldiers who fought in WWI. His diary provides a unique...

The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged forward to disrupt ...

Local Heroes

Bicycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis looks at pioneers of science and invention. Includes the pocket calculator, kaleidoscopes, weighing the earth and melting ice.

Queens That Changed the World

Queen Anne took the throne in 1702. As the last Stuart monarch and the first queen of Great Britain, she united Scotland and England.

5: Tower Houses in Scotland | Castle

Marc Morris charts the 300-year development of the Tower House, from the fortress island community of Thrive Castle in Dumfriesshire to ...

In Sight of Home: The Iolaire

Documentary providing a moving account of the HMY Iolaire, which tragically sank on New Year's Day 1919 and is arguably the greatest tragedy to...

War at Sea: Scotland's Story

First of a two-part documentary in which David Hayman uncovers the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War.

The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank

Charting how the Singer sewing machine helped establish the town of Clydebank by employing tens of thousands of people before its demise ...

From Scotland with Love

Exploring Scotland's past using only Scottish film archive. Images of ordinary people from the past are edited together and soundtracked by the music...

Black and Scottish

What does it mean to be black and Scottish? Director Stewart Kyasimire seeks out a range of black Scots of different ages and from diverse backgrounds to ...

Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why. Meeting those caught up in the pr...

The Force: The Story of Scotland's Police

This episode tells the story of the origins of the lowest-ranking cop - the constable - a role which dates back some 400 years.

Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes only for some uncomfortable ...

Darren McGarvey: The Staye We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to explore the UK's justice system through the eyes of the people who live and work in it.

Darren McGarvey's Addictions

Darren McGarvey explores Scotland's dangerous love affair with alcohol. He meets doctors, scientists, and problem drinkers to understand why so ...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

Being Jewish in Scotland

The Jewish community has been well integrated in Scottish society for centuries, but their story is not well known. This programme tells their story...